Karen Balas v. Huntington Ingalls Industries

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• holding that a \private letter\ to the EEOC is not enough to formally amend an EEOC charge
• holding that “claims based on allegations included only in Balas’s intake questionnaire and letters are therefore outside the jurisdiction of the federal courts”
• holding that claims asserted only in letters and intake questionnaire responses are not part of the EEOC charge and have not been exhausted
• noting that “one of the purposes of requiring a party to file charges with the EEOC is to put the charged party on notice of the claims raised against it”
• noting that any claims that “exceed the scope of the EEOC charge and any charges that would naturally have arisen from an investigation thereof ... are procedural^ barred” (citations and quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that an “intake questionnaire,” which occurs after an initial inquiry, and “letters” that the plaintiff had “submitted to the EEOC,” “cannot be read as part of her formal discrimination charge without contravening the purposes of Title VII”

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