Robert Anderson v. Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that Congress did not intend to require that every litigant make a timely filing before commencing an ADEA action in District Court
• holding that so long as there is an indication of an allegation of class-wide discrimination, notice may serve as a basis for suit by others who are similarly situated
• explaining that the charge is designed to afford the defendant notice of the allegations against it and to permit informal methods of conciliation by the EEOC
• “ADEA does not ... require that [the named] plaintiffs file a routine written consent whose only purpose is to notify the court and the defendants that the plaintiffs agree to participate in the lawsuit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).