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Title VII’s Charge Requirement Isn’t Jurisdictional, But It Can Still Be Fatal

By Greg Mersol on June 3, 2019 Posted in Discrimination, EEOC

Some cases look a lot more important at first glance than what they turn out to be. Case in point, today’s decision in Fort Bend County, Texas v. Davis, Case No. 18-525 (U.S. Sup. Ct. June 3, 2019). The Court’s holding was that Title VII’s charge-filing requirement is not jurisdictional. In the end, however, the … Continue Reading

Court Dismisses Class Race Claims for Failure to Raise in Charge

By Greg Mersol on May 31, 2012 Posted in Discrimination

Illinois District Court Refuses to “Supersize” Race Discrimination Claims Against McDonald’s In this day and age when discrimination lawsuits are commonplace, it is all too easy to forget that Title VII was passed in the hopes that discrimination claims could and would be resolved outside of court. When Congress enacted Title VII, it expressly included … Continue Reading