Court Opinion

ID: 9462895
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:52:50.124283+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:50.328685
License: Public Domain

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
With the District Judge and the weight of appreciable decisional authority, I think that Congress, in 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(f)(l) —Section 706(f)(1) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — was quite explicit. Only that body may engraft upon it equitable or other elastic relaxations. The District Court was and, now, we are asked to amend what the majority opinion at once concedes is an “unambiguous” provision. Regardless of who is at fault in neglecting to meet the time-deadline, it was not the error of Congress in its phrasing of the Act. I would affirm.