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Nature of Suit Code: 442
Nature of Suit: Civil Rights Employment
Cause of Action: 42:12101 Americans with Disabilities Act

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McGREGOR W. SCOTT

United States Attorney

JOSEPH E. MALONEY, SBN 95458

Assistant United States Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, California 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2750

Attorneys for the Defendant

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MURPHY C. GANT, 

Plaintiff,

v.

JOHN E. POTTER, Postmaster

General,

Defendant.

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No. 2:05-CV-00920 WBS DAD 

STIPULATION AND ORDER

The parties, through their counsel, stipulate that defendant

may file an Amended Answer in the form of the accompanying

proposed Amended Answer. Defendant is amending his Answer to

assert the Fourth Affirmative Defense asserting laches. In view

of the length of time between plaintiff’s unsuccessful

application for employment in 1990 and his initial contact of an

equal employment opportunity counselor in 1994, laches is a

possible defense. An employer may raise laches as a defense in a

Title VII case. National R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Morgan, 536

U.S. 101, 121-22, 122 S.Ct. 2061, 2077 (2002). Leave to amend

should freely be given. Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 15(a). In view of

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the early stage of the litigation and plaintiff’s consent, there

is good cause for leave to amend. 

Dated: August 10, 2005 McGREGOR W. SCOTT

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY

/s/Joseph E. Maloney

JOSEPH E. MALONEY

ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY

Dated: August 10,2005 /s/Leo F. Donahue

LEO F. DONAHUE

ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 10, 2005

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