Ex-Brown University Worker Gets FMLA Interference Claim Trial

Brown University must face a former employee’s claim that the school violated federal law by firing him while he was on approved medical leave.

A jury could find that ex-administrative assistant John Gomes reasonably believed he had time to send in a second leave certification form under the Family and Medical Leave Act because his leave had already been approved, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island said Monday.

While McConnell rejected Brown’s motion for summary judgment on Gomes’ FMLA interference claim, he granted the school’s request regarding his FMLA retaliation ...