5th Circuit: Failure To Name Title VII In Original Petition Renders Claim Untimely

Mealey's (November 9, 2017, 7:18 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 27 affirmed a district court’s ruling that a former American Airlines Inc. employee’s discrimination charge was untimely because she did not identify it as a cause of action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 until she amended her petition more than 90 days after receiving her right-to-sue notice from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Detra Barrett v. American Airlines, Incorporated, No. 17-10649, 5th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 21336)....

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