Wedow v. City Of Kansas City

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• holding that the plaintiffs’ administrative charge, which alleged ongoing retaliatory denials of advancement opportunities, obviated the need for the separate administrative exhaustion of the plaintiffs’ termination claim
• concluding that “reasonably related” subsequent acts were timely brought when the administrative charges stated that the specific acts of retaliation were “ongoing and continuing”
• holding that the plaintiffs’ administrative charge, which alleged ongoing retaliatory denials of advancement opportunities, obviated the need for the separate administrative exhaustion of the plaintiffs’ termination claim
• noting that the rule against claim splitting “does not apply to claims that did not exist when the first suit was filed”
• recognizing a judicial exception to.the exhaustion doctrine and noting that this court has “considerably narrowed our view of what is ‘like or reasonably related’ to the originally filed EEOC allegations”
• affirming that an employee alleging retaliation must prove causation and alleging that retaliatory acts happened shortly after invoking one’s legal rights can give rise to an inference of causation

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