· 2/29/2024
Crocs Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Cherif Robert Medawar
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- holding that Congress did not validly abrogate states’ sovereign immunity from suits for money damages in enacting FMLA’s self-care provision
- holding that Congress lacked authority to abrogate states’ sovereign immunity for claims relating to FMLA’s self-care provision
- holding that Congress lacked the authority to abrogate state sovereign immunity when it legislated certain provisions of the FMLA
- holding that there was an insufficient nexus “between self-care leave and gender discrimination by state employers” to validly abrogate state sovereign immunity
- holding that the FMLA’s self-care provisions, as opposed to its family-care provisions, do not validly abrogate sovereign immunity
- holding that Congress lacked authority to abrogate states’ sovereign immunity for claims relating to FMLA’s self-care provision
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