1st Circuit Declines Request To Adopt Expanded Single Filing Rule In Age Bias Suit

Mealey's (July 21, 2021, 7:22 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on July 9 declined an employee’s request in an age bias lawsuit that it adopt a version of the “single file” rule that would permit a nonexhausting plaintiff to piggyback on a timely filed administrative filing that did not provide notice of wider spread discrimination, writing that the case before it and the circumstances presented did “not lend themselves to a thoughtful application of a reasonable variant of the rule.”...