Legal Opinion
Salazar v. United States Postal Service
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided July 1, 1996No. Civ. A. No. 96-188-APublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
Essential to the disposition of this Title VII claim is whether such a claim may be *968brought against the United States Postal Service (“Postal Service”) in state court. If so, then the state court in which the action was originally filed had jurisdiction over the claim so that an amendment now to correct a misnomer would relate back to the state court filing, thereby rescuing the claim from the time bar of 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16(c). But if there was no state court jurisdiction, then the amendment would not relate back to the date of the state court filing…
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