Opinion ID: 560522
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Heading: Dismissal of Retaliation Claim

Text: 39 Ang contends that he was terminated in part as retaliation for his protests against the inferior treatment of minorities by P & G, particularly his demand that P & G conduct a study of the progress of minority Ph.Ds. The EEOC charge, however, did not refer to retaliation in the factual statement, nor did Ang check off the retaliation box when asked to identify the type of discrimination suffered. The district court thus granted P & G's Motion to Dismiss Ang's section 704 retaliatory dismissal charge because the allegations of retaliatory discrimination are not within the scope of an investigation reasonably related to Plaintiff's charge of national origin discrimination. 715 F.Supp. 851. 40 Courts have held that it is unnecessary for a plaintiff to exhaust administrative remedies prior to urging a retaliation claim growing out of an earlier charge; the district court has ancillary jurisdiction to hear such a claim when it grows out of an administrative charge that is properly before the court. Gupta v. East Texas State Univ., 654 F.2d 411, 414 (5th Cir.1981); See also Baker v. Buckeye Cellulose Corp., 856 F.2d 167, 168-69 (11th Cir.1988). Because retaliation claims, by definition, arise after the filing of the EEOC charge, this rule promotes efficiency by requiring only one filing. Id. Ang's claim, that P & G fired him in retaliation for his demand that they study the differential treatment of minority Ph.Ds at P & G, involves conduct occurring prior to the filing of the EEOC charges and thus could have been alleged in the original charge. Retaliatory conduct occurring prior to the filing of the EEOC complaint is distinguishable from conduct occurring afterwards as no unnecessary double filing is required by demanding that plaintiffs allege retaliation in the original complaint. Steffen v. Meridian Life Ins. Co., 859 F.2d 534, 545 n. 2 (7th Cir.1988), cert. denied, 491 U.S. 907, 109 S.Ct. 3191, 105 L.Ed.2d 699 (1989).