Teemac v. Henderson

How courts have described this case

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• 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.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).