Supreme Court of Texas

In plaintiff's suit against a university under the Family and Medical Leave Act, claiming that he was terminated for taking personal medical leave under the self-care provision of the Act and for exercising his First Amendment rights by complaining about unsafe work conditions, court of appeals' judgment that the self-care provision validly abrogated the State's sovereign immunity is reversed as the trial court erroneously denied university's plea to the jurisdiction as the State of Texas cannot be sued under the Act's self-care provision, and the university did not voluntarily waive immunity.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/25/2010
• Decided 07/02/2010
• Published 07/02/2010

Judges

• Willett, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

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