United States Tenth Circuit

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act requires a private sector claimant to cooperate with the EEOC in order to exhaust his or her administrative remedies. Plaintiff's failure to exhaust his or her administrative remedies does not justify granting summary judgment to the defendant, but rather justifies dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/21/2005
• Published 10/21/2005

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before EBEL, Circuit Judge, McWILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge, and FRIOT, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis E. Egan, The Popham Law Firm, Kansas City, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Barbara L. Sloan, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), Washington, D.C. (Eric S. Dreiband, Lorraine C. Davis, Vincent J. Blackwood, EEOC, Washington, D.C., with her on the brief) for amicus curiae EEOC in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul W. Cane, Jr., Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, San Francisco, CA (David M. Eisenberg, Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice, Kansas City, MO;  Chris R. Pace, Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, KS;  and Katherine C. Huibonhoa, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, San Francisco, CA;  with him on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee., Stephen A. Bokat, Robin S. Conrad, Ellen Dunham Bryant, National Chamber Litigation Center, Washington, D.C., and Ann Elizabeth Reesman, McGuiness Norris & Williams, Washington, D.C., filed a brief on behalf of amicus curiae The Equal Employment Advisory Council and The Chamber of Commerce of the United States in support of Defendant-Appellee.