Beecher v. Federal Land Bank of Spokane

How courts have described this case

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• holding plaintiff’s claim accrued on the date she gave definite notice of her intention to retire and stating “it is only the employee who can know when the atmosphere has been made so intolerable by the discrimination- motivated employer that the employee must leave”
• plaintiff alleged constructive discharge as an element of claims under federal, state, and local gender- and age-discrimination laws
• “It has long been settled that a claim of employment discrimination accrues for statute of limitations purposes on the date the employee learns of the employer’s discriminatory conduct.”
• “[T]he time for filing a claim with the EEOC [based on discharge] starts running on the date when the employee receives a definite notice of termination[.]” (quotations omitted)
• “We think that the date Flaherty’s claim accrued was the date when she gave definite notice of her intention to retire, and the rule should be the same in all cases of constructive discharge.”
• “[T]he time for filing a claim 14 with the EEOC [based on discharge] starts running on the date when the 15 employee receives a definite notice of termination . . . .” (quotation marks 16 omitted)

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