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The EEOC secures approval of $11 million consent decree in its largest settlement of 2012

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 9 2012

The EEOC secured approval of its largest settlement in 2012 this past week in EEOC v. Yellow Transportation, Inc. and YRC, Inc., No. 09-7693 (N.D. Ill. June 28, 2012), a pattern or practice lawsuit involving allegations of systemic race discrimination

EEOC redux: Federal Judge holds California state agency exempt from Rule 23 requirements

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

We previously blogged about DFEH v. Law School Admissions Council, Inc., No. 12-CV-1830, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 57431 (N.D. Cal. April 22, 2013), and

The EEOC secures injunctive relief in sex harassment lawsuit

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 1 2012

The U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada recently issued an opinion in EEOC v. Prospect Airport Services, Inc., U.S. Dist. LEXIS 103256 (D. Nev. July 25, 2012), which granted the EEOC sweeping injunctive relief and ordered the Defendant to implement steps to deter future violations of sexual harassment

EEOC Apple-Orchard case chopped down by Washington jury

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 5 2013

After years of smash-mouth litigation, it was a clean sweep for a large agri-business employer this week in one of the EEOC's highest profile cases

Plaintiffs' "no poaching" antitrust class action claims survive motion to dismiss

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 27 2012

Antitrust claims are not unknown or uncommon anymore for employers

Court finds the EEOC's delay in pursuing lawsuit unreasonable

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 19 2012

On June 28, 2012, Judge Thomas D. Schroeder of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina gave employers an additional tool for combating an increasingly common EEOC practice of dragging out investigations and the initiation of lawsuits

Court limits the EEOC's investigative power by finding that the EEOC is not entitled to "unconstrained investigative authority"

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 29 2012

On November 19, 2012, in EEOC v. McLane Company, Inc., No. 12-CV-02469 (D. Ariz. Nov. 19, 2012), Judge G. Murray Snow of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona held that the EEOC’s authority to investigate charges of discrimination is not unlimited

California promises a pattern or practice of FEHA enforcement actions

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 28 2013

With the newfound ability to file civil actions seeking unlimited monetary relief, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) is

Oh, the irony! Tenth Circuit upholds denial of class certification in nationwide Title VII gender discrimination because employer failed to follow official company performance management process

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 18 2013

On January 15, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld a district court order denying class certification in a nationwide Title

Court rules that Dukes does not justify limits on discovery in a gender discrimination class action

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 14 2011

The Supreme Court's decision in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 131 S. Ct. 2541 (2011), continues to find its way into briefing for the nuts and bolts of many class actions