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· 5/18/1984

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Appellant, v. the GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY, Appellee

Citations

  • 735 F.2d 69
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 22347
  • 34 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 34,489
  • 34 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1412

How courts have described this case

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  • reversing district court's finding of inordinate delay despite three multi- year long gaps in proceedings
  • reversing district court's finding of inordinate delay despite three multiyear long gaps in proceedings
  • “[a]n employer notified of a charge is obliged by regulation to preserve relevant personnel records until the charge’s final disposition.”
  • \If a statutory limitations period that would bar legal relief has expired ... the burden shifts to the plaintiff to justify its delay and negate prejudice.\
  • “If a statutory limitations period that would bar legal relief has expired ... the burden shifts to the plaintiff to justify its delay and negate prejudice.”
  • “If a statutory limitations period that would bar legal relief has expired . . . the burden shifts to the plaintiff to justify its delay and negate prejudice.”

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Judges: Gibbons, Sloviter, Mencer

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