United States Sixth Circuit

Under the FMLA, an employee's fitness for duty certification need only be a simple statement of an employee-s ability to return to work; the grant of summary judgment for defendant is reversed and remanded for further fact finding.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/02/2005
• Published 11/02/2005

Judges

• Before:  MOORE and COLE, Circuit Judges;  WISEMAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Carol S. Nickle, Nickle & LaFevor, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant.  Robert L. Bowman, Kramer, Rayson, Leake, Rodgers & Morgan, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Carol S. Nickle, James R. LaFevor, Nickle & LaFevor, Knoxville, Tennessee, William O. Bush, Law Offices of William Bush, Cookeville, Tennessee, for Appellant.  Robert L. Bowman, Kramer, Rayson, Leake, Rodgers & Morgan, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee.