WALSH v. UNION PACIFIC R. CO.

No. 85-2337 NE Civil.

803 F.2d 412 (1986)

LuAnn K. WALSH, Appellee, v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks & Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees, Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks & Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees, Union Pacific-Lines East System Board of Adjustment No. 106.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 14, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brenda Joyce Council, Omaha, Neb., for appellant.

Bruce H. Abrahamson, Omaha, Neb., for appellee.

Before GIBSON and FAGG, Circuit Judges, and SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.


SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

LuAnn Walsh was employed as a file clerk in the Union Pacific Railroad's engineering department. On June 10, 1977 she requested a thirty-day leave of absence. Leave was granted but she was told that she would have to be examined by a company doctor if she wished to have her leave extended. Walsh did not do this. Instead, at the end of the thirty-day leave of absence, Walsh delivered a note to the company by her personal physician, stating...

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