A former legal assistant is entitled to a trial on her claim that she was terminated in retaliation for using leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, rather than for violating Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr, and Smith, APLC’s written policy pertaining to mandatory clocking out for lunch breaks after she had been specifically reprimanded on a prior occasion for doing so, a Louisiana federal court ruled. The court declined to credit her direct supervisor‘s testimony that she made her decision to terminate the legal assistant months before the discharge, and it stated that determining the timeline of her decision-making ...

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