Tellis v. Alaska Airlines, Inc., 414 F.3d 1045 (9th Cir. 2005)
H. Charles Tellis was terminated from his job as an Alaska Airlines maintenance mechanic when he took an unexcused leave of absence from work to fly from Seattle to Atlanta in order to retrieve one of the family’s automobiles, which he then drove back to Seattle. Tellis contended that his trip to Atlanta