Bryant v. Texas Department of Aging & Disability Services

How courts have described this case

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• noting that sovereign immunity generally shields state officials sued in their official capacity
• “[T]he Ex parte Young exception on which Bryant relies does not apply to suits against state agencies; this narrow exception is limited to certain claims against state employees acting in their official capacities.”
• “Congress has validly abrogated states’ sovereign immunity with respect the FMLA’s family-care provision. It has not done so with respect to the statute’s self-care provision; thus, states may still assert an Eleventh Amendment immunity defense against claims based on that provision.”
• applying qualified immunity to FMLA interference claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).