5th Circuit: Cancer Center’s Federal Funding Doesn’t Waive Immunity In Age Bias Suit

( January 30, 2024, 1:10 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A cancer center’s acceptance of federal funding doesn’t waive its sovereign immunity as an arm of Texas, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Jan. 29 in a three-page per curiam opinion, reversing a trial court’s denial of the center’s dismissal motion in an age bias suit by a former employee and remanding with instructions to dismiss....