Court Opinion

ID: 9482818
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 09:01:40.265314+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:49:13.632297
License: Public Domain

RALPH B. GUY, Jr., Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I agree with all of Judge Merritt’s opinion, except Part IV B, from which I dissent. In Part IV B, Judge Merritt writes: “[T]he EEOC’s decision to reconsider a cause determination, and the procedural consequences attaching to such a decision, should not be subject to judicial review.” In my view, we are not considering *588the right of a district court to engage in a review of the EEOC’s decision to reconsider a matter. Rather, the district court here ■ looked at the motives of the plaintiff in the case before him and found that the plaintiffs motion for reconsideration was merely a subterfuge designed to extend the time in which to bring suit. I believe that a district judge should retain the right to make such a determination. I express no opinion on the general question of the scope of judicial review, if any, of an EEOC reconsideration determination because I find it unnecessary to reach that issue in deciding this case.