James v. Rumsfeld’s Empirical Analysis
580 F.2d 224 · 1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1994
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Brown v. General Services Administration · Levers v. Anderson · Williams v. Tennessee Valley Authority
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The language of both § 713.212(b) and § 713.251(a) made it clear that the two possible administrative remedies were distinct, although not mutually exclusive since a generalized third party procedure could possibly include grievances cognizable under the individual complaint procedure.- The only administrative remedy pursued here was a third party allegation filed by plaintiffs and three others on behalf of their union local. The district court properly held that the third party allegation could not serve to meet § 717(c)’s exhaustion requirement and that only an individual complaint could, obviating leave to amend. A Title VII suit in federal court is designed to provide specific relief for specific grievances. This is also the purpose of the individual complaint process in §§ 713.211-713.222. The third party allegation procedure in § 713.251, contrariwise, was designed to provide a general ized overall review pf an agency’s personnel policies vis-a-vis alleged discrimination. The generalized inquiries and findings appropriate to a third party procedure, and evidenced in this case, are simply not a proper administrative foundation for litigation seeking specific relief. The agency has not been afforded an opportunity to remedy specific grievances, which is one of the purposes behind the exhaustion requirement. Plaintiffs assert that even if a third party allegation is not appropriate exhaustion for an individual’s federal Title VII suit, it should be sufficient exhaustion fo”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(save for a reference to the individual complaint procedure) but rather referred to an”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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