Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities v. Savin Rock Condominium Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• discussing line of cases under which statutory time limitation that is directory, not mandatory, is deemed not to implicate subject matter jurisdiction
• looking to “the genealogy and legislative history of the statute, as well as our case law addressing the policy underlying the statute” to determine whether legislature intended to impose subject matter jurisdictional requirement
• ‘‘[i]n construing a Con- necticut statute that is similar to federal law, we often turn to decisions construing the federal law for guid- ance’’
• ‘‘[i]n construing a Connecticut statute that is similar to fed- eral law, we often turn to decisions construing the fed- eral law for guidance’’
• § 46a-64c was adopted with ‘‘the intent of creating a state antidiscrimination housing statute [that is] consis- tent with its federal counterpart’’
• ‘‘[w]e concluded in Williams that a determina- tion that a time limit is mandatory does not necessarily mean that it also is subject matter jurisdictional’’

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