NT Lakis Lawyers File Brief With Supreme Court Urging Reversal of Seventh Circuit’s Arbitrary Expansion of EEOC’s Investigatory Authority

NT Lakis lawyers, joined by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Justices to review and reverse a troubling ruling by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals involving the scope of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) investigatory authority under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII).

In a controversial ruling issued last year, the appeals court concluded in EEOC v. Union Pacific that nothing in Title VII precluded the EEOC from resuming a charge investigation after it had issued the charging parties a right-to-sue notice and the plaintiffs’ subsequent lawsuit was dismissed by the trial court on the merits.

Because the Seventh Circuit’s ruling in Union Pacific deepens the conflict in the lower courts regarding when the EEOC’s charge investigation authority ceases, our brief urges the High Court to step in, resolve the split, and restore important limits on the EEOC’s investigatory authority.

Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.