Hansen v. Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc.

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO DISMISS

JEFFREY ALKER MEYER, District Judge.

It has long been the rule that a Title VII plaintiff alleging that she was the victim of employment discrimination may not seek relief in a federal court until she timely exhausts her administrative remedies before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). The principal question in this case is whether a plaintiff should lose her right to seek relief in court because of an administrative error by the EEOC — here, the EEOC wrongfully deemed plaintiffs claim to have been withdrawn when in fact she had never…