Employment Litigation, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Evidence

Workplace Investigations in Litigation: Strategic Value for Both Plaintiffs and Defendants

Oppenheimer Investigations Group on 8/19/2025

Workplace investigations are generally conducted outside of a litigation context and involve complaints that are not ultimately litigated. However, inevitably some workplace disputes that are investigated do make it to...more

SCOTUS Predictions: Court Will Make It Easier for Majority-Group Plaintiffs to Assert Title VII Claims, No More “Reverse”...

Fisher Phillips on 3/17/2025

The Supreme Court is likely to soon rule that majority-group plaintiffs must meet the same pre-trial evidentiary burden applicable to minority-group plaintiffs – and nothing more – in workplace discrimination claims under...more

Good Reasons Sometimes Win: 5th Circuit Cites “Unprofessional Behavior” of Plaintiff in Dismissing ADEA Claim

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 11/1/2019

Add this case to your “Be Sure to Document Your Non-Discriminatory Reasons” file. An employee doing bad things lost on summary judgment in an employment discrimination action, even though she alleged that the company did not...more

Federal Court Rules That Employer Is Not Entitled To EEOC’s Pre-Suit Materials

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/8/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: After a federal magistrate judge in California ordered the EEOC to provide written discovery responses relative to the substance its pre-suit investigation of a sex discrimination charge in EEOC v. Chipotle...more

Be Careful What You Say: The danger of the charge of discrimination

McAfee & Taft on 4/18/2019

It’s tempting for employers to shrug off the allegations contained in a charge of discrimination or similar agency filing – viewing them as unfounded, unsupported and self-serving. Or worse, an employer may attack the...more

EEOC’s Motion For Sanctions Granted Over Employer’s Failure To Preserve And Produce Records

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/8/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: In an EEOC lawsuit alleging that an employer failed to reasonably accommodate its Muslim employees’ requests for prayer breaks, a federal court in Colorado granted the EEOC’s motion for sanctions — as a...more