A Texas federal district court denied Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District’s motion to dismiss Family and Medical Leave Act retaliation and interference claims brought by a professional development director with major depressive disorder who was terminated after taking FMLA leave, finding the school district was not entitled to sovereign immunity as an “arm of the state” and that plaintiff sufficiently pled a causal connection between her protected leave and termination through temporal proximity and the employer’s failure to provide any explanation for her firing.
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