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ADA Requires Employees Exhaust Claims Prior to Filing Suit

Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act doesn't create a claim for public employees for employment discrimination; it doesn't deal with employment, and Title I, which does, relegates public employees to the administrative scheme with exhaustion requirement of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. See: Patterson v. Illinois, 35 F.Supp.2d 1103 (C.D.Ill. 1999).

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Patterson v. Illinois