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Saying good-bye to the failure to conciliate defense? - Seventh Circuit set to decide whether courts have any power to review EEOC conciliations

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

Will the Seventh Circuit immunize the entire conciliation process from judicial review? It will if the EEOC has its way. The EEOC is pressing its

"Historic" verdict in EEOC v. Hill Country Farms reduced to $1.6 million but litigation continues as EEOC seeks injunctive relief against defunct company

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2013

We previously reported that the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) secured a verdict of $240 million in its lawsuit against

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

District Court sanctions the EEOC for thwarting discovery of social media content

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 3 2013

In yet another case regarding discovery of social media content, Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty of the U.S. District Court for the District of

District Court rejects the EEOC's disability discrimination claim and rules that random alcohol tests do not violate the ADA

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 24 2013

In a unique case, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania recently dismissed the EEOC's allegations that the Defendant's

EEOC kicks off 2013 settling sex harassment and retaliation lawsuits

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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

The top 5 most intriguing decisions in EEOC cases of 2012

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 25 2013

Calling all loyal readers of our blog our annual EEOC litigation study is here: the launch of our book entitled EEOC-Initiated Litigation: Case Law

New year, but old tactics: EEOC iced in Arizona for mixed bag of procedural and substantive failings

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 16 2013

Despite a number of setbacks in 2011 and 2012, it appears that the EEOC is charging into 2013 with much the same playbook it adopted in years past:

Boys will be boys: court refuses to expand liability for off-color badgering and horseplay despite EEOC's hardball litigation

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 2 2012

As this blog recently reported, the EEOC has reduced the amount of cases it filed in its last fiscal year, and appears to have decided to more aggressively pursue the cases in its current inventory

Testing the social media waters - court requires the EEOC to produce Facebook postings

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 17 2012

Social media has become an integral part of modern society