Case: Disability Discrimination/Sovereign Immunity (E.D. Tenn.)

A Tennessee federal district court granted the University of Tennessee and its officials’ motion to dismiss all claims brought by a 60-year-old tenured professor with a serious medical condition, including breach of contract, Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and due process claims, ruling that sovereign immunity barred claims against UT and the officials in their official capacities, the OWBPA doesn’t provide a separate cause of action, and the individual defendants didn’t qualify as “employers” under the ADA.

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