Legal Opinion
Melvin W. Coles v. General Howard W. Penny, Director, Defense Mapping Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 23, 1976No. 74--1742PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge McGOWAN.
McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:
This case presents the question of whether notice to a federal employee that his charge of employment discrimination has been dismissed and that the agency decision is final suffices to start the running of the thirty-day period in which a civil action may be brought, when the notice fails to inform the employee of his right under Title VII to file such an action. We answer this question in the negative.
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Appellant Melvin Coles, a black cartographer with the Defense Mapping Agency, 1 has on three occasions within the…
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