Herbert K. Wilson v. Federico F. Pena, Secretary, Department of Transportation

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that employee was entitled to sue in district court to challenge the Coast Guard’s calculation of his back-pay award where EEOC did not act on his petition for enforcement within 180 days
• concluding that a Title VII claimant was entitled to file suit to challenge the correctness of an agency’s computation of a backpay award once the EEOC failed to act on the claimant’s petition for enforcement within 180 days
• explaining that plaintiff exhausted administrative appeal where EEOC “did not request any information from him” during its investigation
• explaining that extending a limitations period “d[id] not alter the legal effect of any pre-amendment event, nor d[id] it change the remedies available for pre-amendment violations”
• explaining that notice requires “both the right to sue and the time limit”
• observing that “[i]f a complainant forces an agency to dismiss or cancel the complaint by failing to provide sufficient information to enable the agency to investigate the claim, he may not file a judicial suit”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).