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· 7/20/2000

Vielma v. Eureka Company

Citations

  • 218 F.3d 458
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 17379
  • 78 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 40,155
  • 83 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 729
  • 2000 WL 890427

How courts have described this case

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

  • disagreeing that “right to sue” letter issued by EEOC is interchangeable with “right to file a civil action” letter issued by Commission
  • recognizing that pursuant to a Worksharing Agreement between the EEOC and the TWC, each agency is “the other[’s] . . . agent for the purpose of receiving and drafting charges, including those that are not jurisdictional with the agency that initially receives the charges”
  • although court has “virtually unlimited discretion to allow amendments before the entry of judgment, that discretion narrows considerably after entry of judgment”
  • “Post-judgment amendment to a complaint can only occur once the judgment itself is vacated under Fed. R. Civ. P. 59 or 60.” (cleaned up)
  • “[W]e have consistently upheld the denial of leave to amend where the party seeking to amend has not clearly established that [it] could not reasonably have raised the new matter prior to the trial court’s merits ruling.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Garwood, Wiener, Dennis

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