Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

single-filing rule

Civil-rights law. The Principle that an administrative charge filed by one plaintiff in a civil-rights suit (esp. a Title V11 suit) will satisfy the administrative-filing rquirements for all coplaintiffs who are making, claims for the same act of discrimination. ( But this rule will not usu. protect a coplaintiffs claims if the coplaintiff also filed an administrative charge, against the same employer, in which different discriminatory acts were complained of, because the administrative agency (usu. the EEOC) and the employer are entitled to rely on the allegations someone makes in a., administrative charge.