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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Scolari's Warehouse Markets, et al. | No. 3:04-cv-00229-DAE-RAM |
U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada | 9/5/2008
Holding: Scolari's Warehouse Markets will pay $425,000 and furnish other relief to settle a class sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). Under the three-year consent decree resolving the case, Scolari’s agreed to pay $425,000 to the employees identified by the EEOC to have…
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EEOC v. The Star Tribune Company | No. 08-cv-5297 |
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota | 3/24/2009
Holding: The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has approved as final a proposed settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) against The Star Tribune Company for more than $300,000 and significant remedial relief. The EEOC filed the suit on behalf…
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EEOC v. United Airlines, Inc. | No. CV 09 0784 EMC |
U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California | 3/17/2009
Holding: United Airlines, Inc. (“UAI”) has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit instituted by the Equal Employment Opprtunity Commission (“EEOC”) alleging that the Chicago-based company’s overtime policy violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”). According to the EEOC’s suit and settlement filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Northern…
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EEOC v. Murphy Ford Inc. d.b.a. Murphy Ford Lincoln Mercury Murphy Ford Inc. | No. 08-cv-1235 |
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | 2/11/2009
Holding: Murphy Ford Inc., doing business as Murphy Ford Lincoln Mercury Murphy Ford Inc., a car dealership located in Chester, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $244,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). The seven-year consent decree settling the suit provided…
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EEOC v. J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc. | No.06 5192 |
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York | 2/10/2009
Holding: J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc. has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) on behalf of Reinell Singh, an African American. The EEOC's lawsuit alleged that Singh's supervisor referred to her several times using racially offensive names and subsequently…
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EEOC v BVP, LLC, et al. | No. 1:08:00518-CCB |
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division | 2/26/2009
Holding: BVP, LLC and N.F.A.C., Inc., doing business respectively as Big Vanilla Pasadena and Big Vanilla Athletic Club, athletic clubs based in Maryland, will pay a total of $161,000 and furnish other substantial relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). In addition…
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EEOC v. Pitt-Ohio Express, Inc. | No. 1:2006 cv 00747 |
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | 1/23/2009
Holding: Pitt-Ohio Express, Inc. (“Pitt-Ohio”), an interstate trucking firm, has agreed to pay $2.43 million and provide other remedial relief to a class of women to settle a major sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). Specifically, the comprehensive relief obtained by the EEOC included $2.43…
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EEOC v. Gold’n Plump Poultry, Inc./EEOC v. The Work Connection | No. 0:08-cv-05136-DSD-JJG/ No. 0:08-cv-05137-DSD-JJG |
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota | 11/12/2008
Holding: The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has approved consent decrees that settled two religious discrimination lawsuits against a leading St. Cloud, Minnesota-based chicken processor, Gold’n Plump Poultry, Inc., and an employment agency, The Work Connection, which referred workers to it. Under the decree preliminarily approved in the…
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EEOC v. LA Weight Loss, Inc. | No. WDQ-02-CV-648 |
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland | 12/1/2008
Holding: LA Weight Loss Centers, Inc., ("LA Weight Loss," renamed Pure Weight Loss, Inc., in early 2007) has settled a nationwide sex discrimination suit for $20 million. In particular, LA Weight Loss agreed to pay $16,842,656 in back pay and $3,157,344 in punitive damages to men whom plaintiff the Equal Employment…
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EEOC v. Nassau County | No. 07 CV 3980 |
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York | 10/23/2008
Holding: Nassau County on Long Island has agreed to pay $450,000 and to significant injunctive relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit on behalf of several police officers in the Marine Bureau. Specifically, the consent decree resolving the suit initiated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") provided $450,000 in total…
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