Chugh v. Western Inventory Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the election of remedies provision barred the plaintiff’s NJLAD claim because the plaintiff obtained a decision from NJDCR and failed to appeal the decision
• considering DCR investigation documents attached to the defendant’s motion to dismiss that were “incorporated into the pleadings by reference” and “integral to or upon which plaintiff’s claim is based”
• “The doctrine of claim preclusion will only bar a claim that could have been brought in a prior proceeding but was not.”
• for § 1981 claim, treating discriminatory/retaliatory discharge as relevant date triggering four-year statute of limitations
• “[T]o permit the [p]laintiff’s NJLAD claim to proceed would contravene the purpose of the election of remedies provision which seeks to make administrative redress exclusive once chosen.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).