Bess Kennedy v. William H. Whitehurst, Acting Director, Department of Human Services

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• comparing the availability of attorney’s fees under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and under Title VII
• attorneys’ fees not authorized for work in administrative proceedings under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act which refers only to an action
• “determination of appropriate remedies must be informed by the ADEA as a whole.”
• provisions of § 626 (d) are “subject to waiver, estoppel and equitable tolling”
• in ADEA context “exhaustion requirement is not jurisdictional in nature but rather [is] a statutory condition precedent to the instigation of litigation and [is] therefore subject to waiver, estoppel, and equitable tolling.”
• “[T]he timeliness and exhaustion requirements [of ADEA] are not jurisdictional in nature but rather are statutory conditions precedent to the instigation of litigation and are therefore subject to waiver, estoppel, and equitable tolling.”

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