Pregnancy and family leave
Snider v. Texas A&M University
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Erin Snider’s dispute with Texas A&M concerned whether her FMLA leave to receive medical care for her unborn daughter, who had a serious health condition, qualified as family-care leave and what she had to prove.
- Who it affects
- The Supreme Court did not decide whether Snider's leave qualified as family-care leave or whether the challenged proof requirement was allowed.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear her case (denied review), so it did not decide those questions.
Erin Snider sought FMLA leave to receive medical care for her unborn daughter, who had a serious health condition. The dispute concerned how that leave should be classified and what Snider had to prove.
The dispute concerns how the FMLA's family-care provision applies to medical care for an unborn child with a serious health condition.
Question presented
If so, in determining if that leaves qualifies as family-care under 29 U.S.C. § 2612(a)(1)(C), whether a court may impose a heightened requirement on pregnant women—and only pregnant women—to prove that the leave she took was for her child’s serious health condition rather than for her own serious health condition under § 2612(a)(1)(D).
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