High Court Won’t Weigh EEOC’s Power to Investigate Claims (1)

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t consider whether the EEOC can continue to investigate companies and request broad employment information after a worker has already filed a discrimination lawsuit.

The justices declined Monday to review a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling that said the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawfully pursued its investigation of VF Jeanswear after it issued a right-to-sue notice to former employee Lori Bell. Although that notice cleared Bell to bring an age and gender discrimination lawsuit against the company, the appeals court said it didn’t end the EEOC’s power to ask for company-wide information ...