Opinion

Chemehuevi Indian Tribe v. California State Board of Equalization

  • 481 U.S. 1051
  • 55 U.S.L.W. 3775
  • 107 S. Ct. 2184
  • 95 L. Ed. 2d 840
  • 1987 U.S. LEXIS 2127
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
May 18, 1987
Status
Published
Cited by
65 cases
Authority
More cited than 97.9%

no government official served within 30-day period thus failure to name proper defendant cannot be cured by 15(c) amendment

How later courts described this case

  • no government official served within 30-day period thus failure to name proper defendant cannot be cured by 15(c) amendment
  • ADEA action is subject to Title VII 30-day limit in which to name proper defendant
  • “when a provision of the ADEA can be traced to a complementary section of Title VII, the two should be construed consistently”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.

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