United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-employer in a case involving ERISA and the Family and Medical Leave Act is affirmed where defendant's honest suspicion of an improper use of disability leave arose after approval of the leave and justified the employee's termination.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/07/2006
• Decided 04/20/2006
• Published 04/20/2006

Judges

• BAUER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, RIPPLE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John A. Goodridge, Evansville, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Harold Crouch, Princeton, IN, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Garrison L. Phillips, Littler Mendelson, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.