United States Ninth Circuit

In a Title VII action for employment discrimination by a federal employee, dismissal of the action is reversed where plaintiff was not required to specifically contact a person with the job title "Counselor" to meet 29 C.F.R. section 1614.105(a)(1)'s requirement that she contact an EEO counselor within 45 days of the alleged discrimination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/23/2009
• Published 07/23/2009

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  D.W. NELSON, MARSHA S. BERZON and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John L. Taylor, Law Offices of John L. Taylor, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katherine Burke Dowling, Joseph Russoniello, and Joann M. Swanson, Office of the U.S. Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.