University of Texas at El Paso v. Herrera

How courts have described this case

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• concluding statement in university's handbook referencing employees' possible right to bring suit did not waive Eleventh Amendment immunity
• noting that states and state agencies are entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity in state court, unless Congress validly abrogates this immunity or the state waives this immunity
• observing that the phrase “serious health condition,” as used in federal law, includes any serious “illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition,” without suggesting the terms require a particular cause
• finding no waiver of immunity by state university through its personnel handbook
• finding no waiver of immunity by state university through its personnel handbook
• “Our federal and state constitutional designs embody the principle of state sovereignty that shields States from private suits in their own courts and in the federal courts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).