Hickey v. Digital Equipment Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that employees were required to exhaust administrative remedies before bringing suit for severance benefits
• holding at the motion to dismiss stage that “[a]lthough appellants allege that ‘the remand [to the Committee] was a mere formality if not a charade,’ [] they have not made the ‘clear and positive’ showing of futility required to circumvent the exhaustion requirement.”
• rejecting an assertion of futility when claimant did not file a written claim and alleged, with no further foundation, that doing so would have been “a mere formality if not a charade”
• rejecting an assertion of futility when claimant did not file a written claim and alleged, with no further foundation, that doing so would have been “a mere formality if not a charade”
• rejecting an assertion of futility when claimant did not file a written claim and alleged, with no further foundation, that doing so would have been “a mere formality if not a charade”
• rejecting an assertion of futility when claimant did not file a written claim and alleged, with no further foundation, that doing so would have been “a mere formality if not a charade”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).