Source: http://openjurist.org/612/f2d/946/patsy-v-florida-international-university
Timestamp: 2017-08-16 23:02:59
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1983', '§ 1983', '§ 1983', '§ 1983', '§ 1983', '§ 1981', '§ 1983']

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612 F. 2d 946 - Patsy v. Florida International University
612 F2d 946 Patsy v. Florida International University
612 F.2d 946
24 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. 1372
State of Florida, a body corporate, for and on
No. 79-2965
Appellant Georgia Patsy brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 after her applications for employment with the University had been rejected a number of times. The district court dismissed the suit on the grounds that Patsy had not exhausted her administrative remedies within the state university system, relying on Penn v. Schlesinger, 497 F.2d 970 (5th Cir. 1974) (en banc), Cert. denied, 426 U.S. 934, 96 S.Ct. 2646, 49 L.Ed.2d 385 (1976). Patsy appeals. We reverse and remand.
Exhaustion of administrative remedies is not a prerequisite of a § 1983 suit. See, e. g., Ellis v. Dyson, 421 U.S. 426, 432-33, 95 S.Ct. 1691, 1694-95, 44 L.Ed.2d 274 (1975) ("Exhaustion of state judicial or administrative remedies . . . was ruled not to be necessary, for we have long held that an action under § 1983 is free of that requirement"); Steffel v. Thompson, 415 U.S. 452, 472, 94 S.Ct. 1209, 1222, 39 L.Ed.2d 505 (1974) ("When federal claims are premised on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . . . we have not required exhaustion of state judicial or administrative remedies"); Gibson v. Berryhill, 411 U.S. 564, 574, 93 S.Ct. 1689, 1695, 1696, 36 L.Ed.2d 488 (1973) ("But this Court has expressly held in recent years that state administrative remedies need not be exhausted where the federal court plaintiff states an otherwise good cause of action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983"); Hardwick v. Ault, 517 F.2d 295 (5th Cir. 1975). The district court's reliance on Penn v. Schlesinger, is misplaced, as that case involved § 1981, not § 1983.