Court Opinion

ID: 9462347
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:39:16.827378+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:33.465256
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McCREE, .Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the result reached here, for although the majority opinion affirms the dismissal of appellant’s age discrimination suit because of his failure to comply with the requirement of section 626(d) that he give the Secretary of Labor 60 days notice of his intent to file suit, it also recognizes that:
Appellant’s failure to afford the Secretary sixty day’s notice of his intent to sue requires this Court to affirm the dismissal of Appellant’s action unless the special facts of this case warrant the granting of equitable relief. [Emphasis added.]
As I stated in my dissenting opinion in Eklund v. Lubrizol Corp., 529 F.2d 247 (6th Cir. 1975), the requirements of section 626(d) are not jurisdictional in the sense that noncompliance with them deprives a court of its power to entertain a suit. In a proper case substantial compliance with the statutory preconditions to suit is sufficient. However, because there were no exceptional circumstances justifying equitable relief here, the district court properly dismissed appellant’s suit.