5.0 | Intro
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5.1 | Diligence & Vigilance
(2) knowing what to request; and
(3) diligently litigating your case.
5.2 | Dual-File Notification
Tip from TBD: Within 3 days of filing your COD, email the commission to ask it to:
(2) Disclose what the filing date is
1 There is no such requirement for single-filed CODs (ie, FCHR only complaints – those which were filed within 301-365 days of the last discriminatory act).
5.3 | General Notification
Tip from TBD: Within 14 days of filing your COD, ask the FCHR whether-or-not it has tried to notify the defendant/respondent
Tip from TBD: Within 21 days of filing your COD, ask the FCHR to agree to send you your Election of Rights form (in the event 180 days pass without an FCHR Determination).
Tip from TBD: Within 30 days of filing your COD, ask the FCHR to refrain from manufacturing issues on timeliness.
Sometime near the end of the first 30 days, the FCHR will likely contact you for an interview...
5.4 | Interview
Often, the investigator will also interview the people who you’ve named in your charge. Based on TBD’s experience, the FCHR never seeks to record those conversations.
Tip from TBD: ask the FCHR whether it will record the conversations of your civil opponent.
Tip from TBD: determine whether [the FCHR’s responses to your request for equal treatment mean that] the FCHR is going to respect your right to receive equal protection under the law.
Tip from TBD: tell the FCHR whether you believe that the state agency is respecting your 14th amendment right to equal protections under the law
Tip from TBD: decide whether you will allow the FCHR to record your conversation (given its responses to your 14th Amendment questions).
5.5 | Cooperation
As always, keep all of the documents/items that are related to your charge.
5.6 | TBD’s Recommendations
• DOAH’s Uniform Rules of Procedure
• Rule 9.030 Fla. R. App. P.
• Rule 9.110 Fla. R. App. P.
• Rule 9.120 Fla. R. App. P.
• Rule 9.190 Fla. R. App. P.
• Rule 2.514 Fla. R. Jud. Admin.
• Rule 201 Fed. R. Evid.
• DOAH’s Uniform Rules of Procedure
Thus, this growing knowledge of yours will be an asset to you as you navigate through the FCHR legal process. And you can further expand that knowledge by learning about the next phase (ie, Phase 6: The Determination)...
