081082P.pdf   11/18/2008  Jamila Phillips  v.  Cathie Mathews
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  08-1082
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Beam and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Employment law. While the district court erred in
   concluding as a matter of law that plaintiff failed to provide her employer
   with enough information to put it on notice that she may be in need of
   Family Medical Leave Act leave, plaintiff was not entitled to prevail on
   her claim that the employer interfered with her exercise of her rights
   under the Act as she failed to show that she was terminated for a reason
   connected to her FMLA; similarly, the district court did not err in
   determining plaintiff was not terminated in retaliation for exercising her
   rights under the Act; even if plaintiff showed a prima facie case of
   retaliation, she failed to show that the employer's stated legitimate
   grounds for discharge were a pretext for discrimination and retaliation.
   Judge Colloton, concurring.