United States Fifth Circuit

Dismissal of appellants' case for failure to satisfy the prerequisites for initiating and maintaining their discrimination claims is affirmed where appellants, who had filed a Title VII sex discrimination case against defendant without first filing an EEOC charge, could not invoke the "single filing rule" to piggyback on an EEOC charge filed by the plaintiff in a lead case with which appellants' case has been consolidated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/03/2006
• Published 08/04/2006

Judges

• DENNIS, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS, SMITH and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis L. Horn, Shirley S. Payne, Horn & Payne, Madison, MS, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Taylor B. Smith, The Kullman Firm, Columbus, MS, for Defendants-Appellees.