Anne M. DARTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that equitable tolling should be allowed where agency neglected to inform plaintiff of filing deadlines despite numerous phone conversations, at least once a month, to check on the progress of the investigation
• asserting highly technical enforcement not appropriate as laypeople typically enforce ADEA statutory rights
• invoking equitable power to toll filing requirement where plaintiff was misled by attorney to file with Department of Labor, and in spite of repeated inquiries, was not told by that Department that her claim was misfiled until after the statutory time period had expired
• “. . the 180-day time limitation should be interpreted as being subject to possible tolling and estoppel.”

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