Legal Opinion
Farris v. Shinseki
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 10, 2011No. 11-1080PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Donna Marie Farris (“Farris”) challenges the district court’s order granting summary judgment for her former employer, the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”). Finding no valid reason to apply an equitable exception, the district court dismissed Farris’s disability discrimination complaint due to her concession that she failed to timely file a formal complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). We find that the district court did not abuse its discretion by declining to toll the limitations period and therefore affirm.
I. Background
We…
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