Bright v. University of Oklahoma Board of Regents

ORDER AND JUDGMENT *

Carlos F. Lucero, Circuit Judge

Annelise Bright appeals from a district court order dismissing her complaint based on sovereign immunity and failure to exhaust. We conclude that dismissal was appropriate, but that the dismissal should have been without prejudice. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we vacate and remand.

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Bright worked as a graduate teaching assistant in the University of Oklahoma’s French Department. In 2015, the department’s coordinator allegedly denied Bright’s request for disability accommodations and sent a libelous memo to various persons.…