Please choose the correct ending to complete the given sentence: Finance and Business: [header] How to defend yourself in a ethnic discrimination lawsuit [title] Evaluate the complaint against you. [step] The complaint may contain mistakes or inconsistencies that you can use as a defense against the plaintiff's claim. [substeps] Check the deadline.

Ending1: If the complaint was filed in federal court, you must file your answer to the lawsuit within 20 days. If the employee hasn't met the legal requirements to file a suit, you may be able to have it dismissed on those grounds. Ending2: If you brought your complaint in a class action (like a workplace discrimination lawsuit), then the deadline may be very close. However, you can charge a different amount of damages if the plaintiff didn't bring the lawsuit in a class action. Ending3: It will indicate if you must file a response within six months of the date of the complaint. In the meantime, you can bring your complaint to the court clerk's office along with a summons, which you can fill out. Ending4: The complaint must be filed within 90 days of the date the plaintiff filed it in a different court. Often, this deadline varies from state to state.

Answer format: ending1/ending2/ending3/ending4