Vicki Steiner v. William J. Henderson, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff’s communications of her complaints with her superiors and failure to follow instructions as to how to proceed with her claim insufficient to equitably toll her claim
• noting that “[i]t is only after these [administrative] procedures have been exhausted and the plaintiff has received a ‘right-to- sue’ letter, that she may pursue a claim in federal court”
• affirming dismissal holding as a matter of law that equitable tolling was not warranted
• “Congress conditioned the government’s waiver of sovereign immunity upon a plaintiff’s satisfaction of rigorous administrative exhaustion requirements and time limitations.”
• “Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . . . as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 . . . provides the exclusive judicial remedy for claims of discrimination in federal employment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).