Emmons v. City University of New York

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “individual defendants are not subject to personal liability” under the ADA and Rehabilitation Act (collecting cases)
• finding that many district courts within the Second Circuit have rejected Title VII official capacity claims
• explaining that state sovereign immunity extends to state officials sued in their official capacities
• dismissing all official capacity claims against individual defendants “because they are wholly redundant to plaintiff’s claims against [the employer] itself” (citation omitted)
• noting CUNY and RFCUNY’s “corporate muddle” and declining to parse it on motion to dismiss in light of “fact-intensive” nature of the inquiry required to do so
• drawing “reasonable inferences” from the complaint that individual defendants “could have had some degree of control over the hiring, firing, or granting of FMLA leave to plaintiff’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).