Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania v. Marsh

How later courts describe this case

• holding that the 30 day civil action filing limitation for federal employees in 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16(c) is a "jurisdictional requirement”
• construing D.H. Overmyer Co. v. Frick Co., 405 U.S. 174, 92 S.Ct. 775, 31 L.Ed.2d 124 (1972), to seem to require that "there be some procedure by which debtor against whom judgment is confessed may test the validity of the judgment against him"
• 30-day period for filing suit by an aggrieved federal employee against his employer under 42 U.S.C.A. § 2000e-16(c) (1974) is a jurisdictional requirement
• court must give explicit consideration to the narrowest possible relief which would protect the respective parties
• exhaustion as to all class members not required as to administrative complaints pending as of the March 24, 1972 Amendments to Title VII which afforded coverage to federal employees
• notice requirement of 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16