Wellborn Freeman v. Oakland Unified School District Carole Quan

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• finding liberal construction of EEOC charges is limited by principles of notice and fair play
• finding plaintiff failed to exhaust 3 where charge alleged discrimination regarding “specific election” at work, but the 4 complaint did not refer to said election
• finding plaintiff had failed to exhaust racial and sexual discrimination claims despite referencing charges in EEOC complaint
• finding a plaintiff’s 6 “cursory reference to ‘racial and sexual discrimination’” in his EEOC charge to not be 7 enough to bring in other instances of racial discrimination not closely related to the factual 8 allegations in the charge
• “The rule of liberal construction does not suggest that a plaintiff sufficiently exhausts his administrative remedies under Title VII by merely mentioning the word ‘discrimination’ in his or her EEOC administrative charge.”
• “[T]he inquiry into whether a claim has been sufficiently exhausted must focus on the factual allegations made in the charge itself, describing the discriminatory conduct about which a plaintiff is grieving.”

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