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· 7/15/2005

Y. Sandra Reschny, Formerly Known as Y. Sandra Curran v. Elk Grove Plating Company, an Illinois Corporation

Citations

  • 414 F.3d 821
  • 24 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 695
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 14317
  • 86 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 42,002
  • 96 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 113
  • 2005 WL 1653444

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that when receipt of the right-to-sue letter “is delayed by fault of the plaintiff, the constructive receipt doctrine applies and the 90-day clock starts running once.delivery is attempted at the last address provided”
  • holding that when re‐ ceipt of the right‐to‐sue letter “is delayed by fault of the plain‐ tiff, the constructive receipt doctrine applies and the 90‐day clock starts running once delivery is attempted at the last ad‐ dress provided”
  • “[h]is negligence in failing to apprise the EEOC of his change of address does not toll the period of limitations”
  • “[T]wo types of receipt of a notice can start running the 90-day limitation period, and each does so equally well: actual receipt by the plaintiff, and actual receipt by the plaintiff's attorney, which constitutes constructive receipt by the plaintiff[.]”

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Judges: Bauer, Posner, Easterbrook

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