Patricia Hentosh, ph.d. v. Herman M. Finch University of Health Sciences/the Chicago Medical School and Samson T. Jacob, ph.d.

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• holding that EEOC requirements remain “subject to waiver, estoppel, and equitable tolling under appropriate circumstances.”
• holding that equitable tolling should be utilized when the plaintiff lacks vital information needed to discover their claim, despite all due diligence to uncover such information, and has an “excusable ignorance” of the limitations period
• noting that tolling does not provide “an automatic extension of indefinite duration” and the plaintiff must file within a reasonable period of time
• finding that because “[plaintiff] has not identified any actions taken by the University that may have prevented her from filing her administrative charge in a timely manner,” equitable estoppel is inapplicable
• tolling does not provide “an automatic extension of indefinite duration” and the plaintiff must file within a reasonable period of time
• tolling does not provide “an automatic extension of indefinite duration” and the plaintiff must file within a reasonable period of time

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