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Initiating litigation and finalizing the pleadings

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INITIATING LITIGATION
6-1 INITIATING LITIGATION AND FINALIZING THE PLEADINGS §6.1
CHAPTER 6: INITIATING LITIGATION and FINALIZING THE PLEADINGS
§6.1 TASK: DETERMINE WHO TO NAME AS DEFENDANTS
§6.1.1 WHAT AND WHY
   


    

§6.1.2 WHEN
 

§6.1.3 HOW
§6.1.3.1 Identify Plaintiff ’s Employer
§6.1.3.1.1 Name Correct Entity
    
   
     
Roberts v. Michaels 

 Coey v. Dobbs International Services, Inc.




Practice Note: Ask your client to bring in a paycheck stub or W-2 form.
    
 


Practice Note: If a mistake has been made and the employer has been incorrectly named,
f‌ile a motion to amend the complaint to name the correct defendant.

§6.1.3.1.2 Parent Company as Defendant


Cook v. Arrowsmith Shelburne, Inc
See also Turley v. ISG Lackawanna, Inc.Sandoval
v. American Building, Maintenance Industries, Inc.
Johnson v. Flowers
Industries, Inc.   
   Id at
Turley

Turley
INITIATING LITIGATION
§6.1 LITIGATING SEXUAL HARASSMENT & SEX DISCRIMINATION CASES 6-2
   
Id. 


§6.1.3.1.3 Succession of Ownership


Practice Note: Report conduct to successor employer
  
   

  
 Whitmore v. O’Connor Management

 

§6.1.3.1.4 Joints Employers
  

   Felder v.
United States Tennis Associationciting Arculeo v. On-Site Sales & Mktg., LLC

See Johnson
v. Flowers Indus., Inc.see Perry v. VHS
San Antonio Partners, L.L.C.
§6.1.3.1.5 Religious Order as Employer
   
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    
    
 
    

  McClure v. Salvation Army
Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church &
School v. E.E.O.C.



Bollard
v. California Province of the Society of Jesus
    
EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc.


   
     
Penn v. New York Methodist Hospital
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