Taylor v. Progress Energy, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
493 F.3d 454 · 2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 202 · 29 U.S.C. § 2601 (§ 2 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 2612 (§ 102 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 2616 (§ 106 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 2617 (§ 107 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 713 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Auer v. Robbins · Christensen v. Harris County · Thomas Jefferson University v. Shalala · General Electric Co. v. Gilbert
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Employees cannot waive, nor may employers induce employees to waive, their prospective rights under FMLA. For example, employees (or their collective bargaining representative) cannot “trade off’ the right to take FMLA leave against some other benefit offered by the employer. This does not prevent the settlement or release of FMLA claims by employees based on past employer conduct without the approval of the [DOL] or a court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[g]iven the existence of at least some measure of ambiguity in the regulation’s use of the term “rights” ... deference to the DOL's interpretation is appropriate under Auer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[u]nder the FLSA, . . . there is a judicial prohibition against the unsupervised waiver or settlement of claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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