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· 5/25/2011

Moore v. Vital Products, Inc.

Citations

  • 641 F.3d 253
  • 32 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 544
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 10436
  • 94 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 44,185
  • 112 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 513
  • 2011 WL 2022951

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that, despite the checked boxes, the claims asserted in plaintiff’s EEOC charge were not alike or reasonably related to the claims asserted in the federal complaint
  • stating that “merely checking the ‘Race’ and ‘Sex’ discrimination boxes in the EEOC charge is not enough to make the EEOC charge like or reasonably related to [the plaintiff's] discriminatory discharge claims”
  • refusing to impose sanctions because both parties had taken liberties with facts and law in briefs and “neither side [could] claim the high ground”
  • quotingJenkins v. Blue Cross Mut. Hosp. Ins., Inc., 538 F.2d 164, 167 (7th Cir. 1976) (en banc)
  • “To be like or reasonably related, the relevant claim and the EEOC charge must, at minimum, describe the same conduct and implicate the same individuals.”
  • “To bring a Title VII claim, a plaintiff must file an EEOC charge within 300 days of the conduct underlying the claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Easterbrook, Kanne, Wood

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