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· 6/19/2012

Carolyn Sydnor v. Fairfax County, Virginia

Citations

  • 681 F.3d 591
  • 26 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 648
  • 2012 WL 2312775
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 12421

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that the ADA requires that a plaintiff must exhaust his administrative remedies by filing a charge with the EEOC before pursuing a suit in federal court
  • noting that plaintiffs administrative and judicial claims are reasonably related when they focus on the same type of discrimination
  • observing that an EEOC filing “ensures that the employer is put on notice of the alleged violations” (quoting Miles v. Dell, Inc., 429 F.3d 480, 491 (4th Cir. 2005))
  • noting that “a plaintiff must exhaust his administrative remedies by filing a charge with the EEOC before pursuing a suit in federal court”
  • explaining that the ADA is “[m]odeled after Title VII” and “incorporates that statute’s enforcement procedures”
  • explaining that the ADA is modeled after Title VII and incorporates its enforcement procedures, including administrative exhaustion

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Judges: Wilkinson, Gregory, Floyd

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