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133743P.pdf 04/07/2015 Lucinda Dalton v. Manor Care of West Des Moines
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 13-3743
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Bye and Smith, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Family Medical Leave Act. Plaintiff failed to establish that
she suffered from a serious health condition resulting in an inability to
work; her short-term conditions did not rise to the level of a serious
health condition and the FMLA did not protect her from discipline based on
her failure to complete work; even if plaintiff had a chronic serious
health condition so that a hospital visit was FMLA-protected, the district
court did not err in granting the defendant's motion for summary judgment
because defendant terminated plaintiff for reasons other than her work
absences.