Survey of the Eighth Circuit Employment Decisions
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Authors
Warden, Michaela M.
Issue Date
2001
Volume
34
Issue
2
Type
Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's 2000 employment docket was predictably active. The court decided forty three cases under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") in 2000, nine of which were notable because the court either (a) applied new standards from the United States Supreme Court in complex factual situations; (b) decided significant issues that the Supreme Court has not yet considered; or (c) provided a consistently pragmatic approach in analyzing the ADA to cases, which on their facts might have as easily been affirmed as reversed. The United States Courts of Appeals for the Seventh and Eighth Circuit invalidated Department of Labor regulations covering the Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") in decisions that have triggered similar results throughout the circuit courts...
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Citation
34 Creighton L. Rev. 369 (2000-2001)
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Creighton University School of Law