No. 21-135

Vaun Monroe v. Columbia College Chicago, et al.

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2021-08-02
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: civil-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equitable-estoppel procedural-review racial-discrimination statute-of-limitations title-vii
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw EmploymentDiscrimina
Latest Conference: 2021-10-08
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Did the court of appeals err in requiring Petitioner Vaun Monroe ("Monroe") to show, on a motion to dismiss, that equitable estoppel can only arise when a defendant is shown to have engaged in a "deliberate design" to mislead him, which ruling is in tension with the standard for equitable estoppel employed in the majority of the other Circuit Courts of appeals as well as the Circuit Courts inter se ?

2. Did the court of appeals err in giving no deference or weight to the EEOC's assumption of jurisdiction on Monroe's charge filing, and subsequent investigation of the charge for three years resulting in the issuance of a "right to sue" letter, as reflecting a timely assertion of his claims with that agency?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the court of appeals err in requiring Petitioner Vaun Monroe to show, on a motion to dismiss, that equitable-estoppel can only arise when a defendant is shown to have engaged in a 'deliberate-design' to mislead him

Docket Entries

2021-10-12
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/8/2021.
2021-09-01
Brief of respondent Columbia College Chicago, et al. in opposition filed.
2021-07-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 1, 2021)

Attorneys

Columbia College Chicago and Bruce Sheridan
David Lawrence SchenbergOgletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Respondent
Vaun Monroe
Thomas D. RosenweinRosenwein Law Group, Petitioner