In Re La Grange Acquisitions, LP, Lonestar NGL Fractionators, LLC, Energy Transfer GC NGL Fractionators, LLC, Lonestar NGL Mont Belvieu, LP, Energy Transfer Mont Belvieu NGLs LP, and Energy Transfer Partners L.P. v. the State of Texas

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• “A ‘seniority system’ is a scheme that . . . allots to employees ever improving employment rights and benefits as their relative lengths of pertinent employment increase.”
• “Congress ... intended to exempt from the normal operation of Title VII ... [a] seniority scheme that ... effectuate[d] the principle that length of employment will be rewarded”
• all permitting a private party to pursue claims in federal court upon the issuance of the right-to-sue letter by the EEOC, even if the 180-day investigation period has not expired
• \[E]very seniority system must include rules that delineate how and when the seniority timeclock begins ticking ... [and] must also have rules that define which passages of time will 'count' towards the accrual of seniority and which will not.\
• “[E]very seniority system must include rules that delineate how and when the seniority timeclock begins ticking ... [and] must also have rules that define which passages of time will ‘count’ towards the accrual of seniority and which will not.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).