Opinion ID: 496612
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Jail Job

Text: 17 Ms. Goin first argues that her claim of discrimination for the loss of the jail job is not time-barred. She states that her claim of discrimination regarding the jail job was included in the complaint in the district court, and that, because the defendants did not raise the affirmative defense of the statute of limitations to that claim, the defendants waived the defense that the jail-job claim is time-barred. Moreover, Ms. Goin argues that she was within the 180-day period for filing a claim with the EEOC because she did not know in October 1982 that the jail job had been given to a man because of discrimination against her. She states that it was the loss of her job in January 1982 that signaled the possible existence of gender-based discrimination. Furthermore, she states that it was not until May 1985, in preparation for trial, that she learned that she had been denied the jail job because the sheriff-elect of Lake County had said that there's no broad that's going to work in this facility. Tr. at 40. She argues that this evidence of discrimination was purposely withheld from her until well after the 180-day filing deadline set forth in Title VII. II