Court: Are states immune from self-leave FMLA suits? 

By Kimberly Atkins
Dolan Media Newswires
Posted: 5:25 pm Thu, January 12, 2012

In enacting the self-leave provision of the Family and Medical Leave Act, was Congress seeking to address gender discrimination in the workplace? That was the question at the center of the debate Wednesday during oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court case Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland, which considers whether Congress abrogated states’ sovereign ...