Carter v. Arlington Public School System

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

Defendants’ motion to dismiss this Title VII race discrimination suit raises an issue, hotly contested in the Fourth Circuit, concerning precisely what a claimant in a deferral state must do to satisfy Title VII’s exhaustion of administrative remedies requirement.

I. 1

Plaintiff, an African-American male, was hired by defendant, Arlington County Public School System, as an art teacher in 1977. He has been continuously so employed since that time. In 1997, defendant Bonnie Pfoutz, then Arlington’s Assistant Director of Adult Education Programs, became…