Fifth Circuit· 7/26/2002

Teemac v. Henderson

Citations

298 F.3d 452
2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 15012
83 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 41,224
89 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 862
2002 WL 1484497

How courts have described this case

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

holding that under the terms of subsection (a)(2), “[t]he agency must waive the requirement if the employee lacked ... notice of the requirement.”
holding that waiver, estoppel, and equitable tolling may apply “to circumvent” the informal counseling requirement
declining to apply equitable tolling even when the plaintiff was new to the United States and did not speak English very well
“Federal employees must seek informal counseling before they file an EEOC complaint ... [i]f the employee fails to do so, his claim is barred.”
“[C]ourts in a long line of cases have held that employees’ ignorance of the law . . . cannot justify tolling.”
“In dictum, we have stated that equitable tolling may apply when an employee’s ‘lack of sophistication’ prevents him from understanding title VII’s procedures.”

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Judges: Jones, Smith, Garza

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