SEVERSON v. HEARTLAND WOODCRAFT, INC.

No. 15-3754.

872 F.3d 476 (2017)

Raymond SEVERSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HEARTLAND WOODCRAFT, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 20, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse Dill, Kelly L. Temeyer, Attorneys, Walcheske & Luzi, LLC, Brookfield, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

David Albert McClurg, Attorney, Petrie & Pettit S.C., Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellee.

Susan Ruth Oxford, Attorney, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Easterbrook and Sykes, Circuit Judges.


From 2006 to 2013, Raymond Severson worked for Heartland Woodcraft, Inc., a fabricator of retail display fixtures. The work was physically demanding. In early June 2013, Severson took a 12-week medical leave under the Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq., to deal with serious back pain...

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