No. 24-359

Adriana Alvarez v. Texas Workforce Commission

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-10-01
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection religious-accommodation sovereign-immunity title-vii
Latest Conference: 2024-12-06
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether TWC's employees may avail themselves of sovereign immunity as a bar to a claim for damages under Title VII, the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment?

2. Whether the Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity can deprive any person of property, without due process of law; or deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, as required by the Fourteenth Amendment?

3. Whether this Court should dismiss the more-than-de-minimis-cost procedure for refusing Title VII religious accommodation as reinforced in Groff v. DeJoy, 143 S. Ct. 2279 (2023)?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Texas Workforce Commission's sovereign immunity bars a Title VII religious accommodation claim and violates due process and equal protection rights

Docket Entries

2024-12-09
Petition DENIED.
2024-11-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2024.
2024-06-10

Attorneys

Adriana Alvarez
Adriana Alvarez — Petitioner