United States DC Circuit

In a Title VII employment discrimination action, dismissal of the action is reversed where: 1) because plaintiffs' claims were separated under Fed. R. Civ. P. 42(b) and because the dismissal of appellants' claims constituted the adjudication of the rights and liabilities of fewer than all the parties in a multiple party case, the dismissal was eligible for Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b) certification; and 2) plaintiffs properly invoked the single-filing exception to the administrative exhaustion requirement to join a preexisting lawsuit.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/26/2010
• Decided 06/01/2010
• Published 06/01/2010

Judges

• Before: SENTELLE, Chief Judge, BROWN and GRIFFITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• S. Micah Salb, argued the cause and filed the briefs, for appellants., Jennifer S. Goldstein, Attorney, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, argued, the cause and filed the brief as amicus curiae, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elisha A. King, pro hac vice, argued the cause for appellee. With her on the brief were Charles B. Wayne and Jamie M. Konn.