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EEOC kicks off 2013 settling sex harassment and retaliation lawsuits

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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February 10 2013

As we blogged about here previously, in the EEOC's first draft of its Strategic Enforcement Plan, the Commission telegraphed that it was increasingly

Another EEOC lawsuit is rejected

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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May 26 2011

On October 1, 2009, the EEOC issued a press release that it had sued the Picture People ("TPP") a nationwide chain of photography studios alleging that it had harassed and discharged a deaf employee in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act

Mixed ruling in EEOC religious discrimination case involving EEOC and private litigant claims

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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June 14 2011

On June 9, 2011, Judge Philip Brimmer in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado issued a complicated ruling addressing a tangle of administrative and procedural issues in the EEOC-initiated religious discrimination pattern or practice lawsuit entitled EEOC v. JBS USA, LLC, No. 10-CV-02103 (D. Colo. June 9, 2011

Seventh Circuit takes broad view of EEOC subpoena power

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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May 2 2011

After a year that saw the EEOC filing a record number of subpoena enforcement actions, employers now also face a disturbing trend of courts taking a broad view of the EEOC's subpoena power

Defense fees awarded in another failed EEOC case

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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May 8 2011

Employers sued by the EEOC under the ADA litigate with the threat of the full weight of the government being brought to bear upon them

Court potentially opens door to pattern or practice piggybacking on an untimely EEOC charge

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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August 8 2011

On June 14, 2011, we reported the decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado called EEOC v. JBS USA, LLC, No. 10-CV-02103 (D. Colo. June 9, 2011) concerning a thorny set of administrative issues facing Judge Philip Brimmer

The EEOC's aggressive year-end litigation salvo reaches coast-to-coast

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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October 3 2011

When the EEOC approached Congress for its FY2011 and 2012 budgets, it repeatedly emphasized that it planned to file more lawsuits, especially large-scale, systemic cases

Court sanctions the EEOC for $2.6 million in fees and costs

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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August 10 2011

One of our top five most intriguing cases of 2010 - EEOC obo Serrano, et al v. Cintas Corp., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18130 (E.D. Mich. Mar. 2, 2010) - heated up again last week by virtue of a decision by Judge Sean Cox from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to award the Cintas Corporation $2,638,443 in fees and costs

EEOC's "fishing expedition" cut short in Pennsylvania

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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June 3 2011

As we have reported in other posts, there have been a disturbing trend in federal district courts to give the EEOC significant latitude in the scope of its investigations

EEOC wins sweeping injunctive relief following Illinois ADA trial

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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USA
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November 22 2011

It is a fact of workplace litigation that trials of employment discrimination cases are rare - only an extremely small number of cases filed in federal district courts ever go to a jury

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