Legal Opinion
Rickards v. United Parcel Service, Inc.
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 19, 2012No. B234192PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
EPSTEIN, P. J.
Appellant George Rickards sued respondent United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS), for violating the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) (Gov. Code, § 12900 et seq.). The trial court granted UPS’s summary judgment motion on the sole ground that Rickards did not file a verified complaint with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) and thus failed to satisfy this jurisdictional prerequisite for filing a lawsuit under FEHA (Gov. Code, § 12960, subd. (b)). In the published portion of this opinion, we conclude that the complaint Rickards’s attorney filed…
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