United States Tenth Circuit

Equitable considerations support permitting a Title VII employment discrimination claim to go forward despite plaintiff's inability to obtain a right-to-sue letter from the U.S. Attorney General.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/06/2003
• Published 05/06/2003

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges, and KRIEGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey A. Lee of Lee Freedman & Wells, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Anne Noel Occhialino, Attorney (Nicholas M. Inzeo, Acting Deputy General Counsel;  Philip B. Sklover, Associate General Counsel;  and Carolyn L. Wheeler, Assistant General Counsel, with her on the brief), United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott D. Boughton, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendant-Appellee.