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· 6/22/2000

Rebecca Vela v. Village of Sauk Village, D/B/A Sauk Village Police Department

Citations

  • 218 F.3d 661
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 14477
  • 78 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 40,121
  • 83 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 227
  • 2000 WL 804554

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that allegations outside four corners of charge may be considered when charging party clearly intended agency to investigate those allegations
  • addressing plaintiffs failure to “demonstrate[ ] that Illinois law grants final policy making authority to either of these officers nor any delegation of such authority by the Village board”
  • sexual harassment claim in lawsuit “wholly diverse from the claim of disparate treatment [on the basis of sex] described in her EEOC charge.”
  • sexual harassment claim in lawsuit wholly diverse from disparate treatment charge before EEOC
  • “There are cases where courts have looked beyond the four corners of the EEOC charge form. ‘Allegations outside the body of the charge may be considered when the charging party intended the agency to investigate the allegations.’”
  • sexual harassment claim not the same as sex dis- crimination charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Diane, Fairchild, Posner, Wood

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