Beard v. King County

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• requiring, plaintiffs to apply for a promotion even though employer verbally told them that he would not consider them for promotion because plaintiffs “cannot ask the court to remedy a denial of promotions for which they never applied based on speculation that seeking promotion was futile”
• plaintiffs could not ask the court to excuse their failure to apply for promotion based on speculation that decision maker was biased against them
• discovery rule balances injured claimant’s right to legal remedies against threat of having statute of limitations expire before he knows he has been injured
• a cause of action does not accrue until the injured party knows or in the exercise of due diligence should have known, the factual basis for a claim
• police officer who did not apply for promotion failed to exhaust administrative remedies, and could not sue King County for unfair employment practices based on absence of promotion
• “An injured claimant who reasonably suspects that a specific wrongful act has occurred . . . has only to file suit within the limitation period and use the civil discovery rules . . . to determine whether the evidence necessary to prove the cause of action is obtainable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).