Jennifer Miles v. Bellfontaine Habilitation Center

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the self-care provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) did not abrogate the states’ Eleventh Amendment immunity
• holding that, although failure to exhaust administrative remedies is not a jurisdictional prerequisite to a Title VII claim, it is treated as an affirmative defense, and where the plaintiff had adequately alleged exhaustion, dismissal was improper
• observing that “failure to exhaust administrative remedies is an affirmative defense that a defendant must prove”
• affirming district court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s FMLA self-care claim since agency of the state was entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity from that claim
• “We know of no authority requiring [Plaintiff] to attach her EEOC charge to her complaint, or to provide additional support for her unchallenged complaint allegations.”
• “We know of no authority requiring Miles to attach her EEOC charge to her complaint, or to provide additional support for her unchallenged complaint allegations.”

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