holding that the petitioner had exhausted his administrative remedies successfully, because his original letter fully satisfied the filing requirements. Id. at 525, 92 S.Ct. 616. The Court stated that “requir[ing] a second ‘filing’ by the aggrieyed party ... would serve no purpose other than the creation of an additional procedural technicality ... particularly inappropriate in a statutory scheme in which laymen, unassisted by trained lawyers, initiate the process.” Id. at 526-27, 92 S.Ct. 616. As did the petitioner in Love, plaintiff detailed his complaints in wilting for the agency well before he was informed of his right to formally file complaints. Under Love, plaintiff was not required to take further action to maintain his claims. Id. at 526, 92 S.Ct. 616. Plaintiffs f ) (<HOLDING>); Garrett v. Lujan, 799 F.Supp. 198, 202
holding that a three month interval between protected activity and adverse act is too long standing alone to establish an inference of retaliation holding causal link between alleged discriminatory remarks and adverse employment action insufficient holding that absent other evidence a thirteenmonth interval between an eeo charge and alleged retaliatory termination was too long to establish a causal link holding that a plaintiff must demonstrate a direct causal link between the municipal action and the deprivation of federal rights holding that an eight month interval between the two events is not strongly suggestive of a causal link