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Colleen M.,1 Complainant, v. Peter O’Rourke, Acting Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs (Veterans Health Administration), Agency.

0120162121 (E.E.O.C. Jun. 15, 2018)
Colleen M.,1 Complainant, v. Peter O’Rourke, Acting Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs (Veterans Health Administration), Agency.

15 Cited authorities

  1. McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green

    411 U.S. 792 (1973)   Cited 52,401 times   95 Legal Analyses
    Holding in employment discrimination case that statistical evidence of employer's general policy and practice may be relevant circumstantial evidence of discriminatory intent behind individual employment decision

  2. Harris v. Forklift Sys., Inc.

    510 U.S. 17 (1993)   Cited 12,384 times   23 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "no single factor is required" to show a hostile work environment, including "whether [the acts are] physically threatening"

  3. Meritor Sav. Bank v. Vinson

    477 U.S. 57 (1986)   Cited 6,505 times   18 Legal Analyses
    Holding that sexual harassment may be actionable under Title VII as discrimination on the basis of sex if it is sufficiently severe and pervasive

  4. Flowers v. Southern Regional Physician Serv

    247 F.3d 229 (5th Cir. 2001)   Cited 385 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that there is evidence of disability-based harassment when a supervisor hovers around an employee's work area, eavesdrops on her conversations, and intercepts her phone calls

  5. Fox v. General Motors Corp.

    247 F.3d 169 (4th Cir. 2001)   Cited 353 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a plaintiff presented evidence of "objectively severe and pervasive workplace harassment" under the ADA where the plaintiff had offered "a good deal of evidence that [his] supervisors ... in vulgar and profane language, constantly berated and harassed him and the other" workers with disabilities and that this harassment "occurred at least weekly"

  6. Hochstadt v. Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology

    545 F.2d 222 (1st Cir. 1976)   Cited 248 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, in balancing the scope of reasonable opposition conduct, "[t]he requirements of the job and the tolerable limits of conduct in a particular setting must be explored"

  7. Hochstadt v. Worcester Foundation, Etc.

    425 F. Supp. 318 (D. Mass. 1976)   Cited 87 times
    Holding that discharge six months after EEOC settlement and a month after an informal complaint satisfies causation requirement

  8. Section 791 - Employment of individuals with disabilities

    29 U.S.C. § 791   Cited 2,276 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Adopting standards for ADA claims under § 501 of the Rehabilitation Act, including 42 U.S.C. § 12112, which forbids discrimination "against a qualified individual with a disability because of the disability . . ."

  9. Section 1614.105 - Pre-complaint processing

    29 C.F.R. § 1614.105   Cited 2,630 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Requiring complainant initially to notify agency and make effort to resolve matter informally

  10. Section 1614.107 - Dismissals of complaints

    29 C.F.R. § 1614.107   Cited 472 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Explaining the notice requirements for partial dismissal of claims in an EEO complaint

  11. Section 1614.110 - Final action by agencies

    29 C.F.R. § 1614.110   Cited 226 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Compelling final decision “within 60 days of the end of the 30-day period for the complainant to request a hearing . . . where the complainant has not requested [one]”

  12. Section 1614.108 - Investigation of complaints

    29 C.F.R. § 1614.108   Cited 179 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Describing inquisitorial nature of investigation process

  13. Section 1614.604 - Filing and computation of time

    29 C.F.R. § 1614.604   Cited 137 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Providing the time limits applicable to the subject regulations "are subject to waiver, estoppel and equitable tolling"

  14. Section 1614.405 - Decisions on appeals

    29 C.F.R. § 1614.405   Cited 81 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Providing that " decision [of the EEOC in an administrative appeal] is final . . . unless . . . [e]ither party files a timely request for reconsideration"

  15. Section 1614.403 - How to appeal

    29 C.F.R. § 1614.403   Cited 34 times
    Indicating that failure to file timely appeal requires dismissal by EEOC