Case: EEOC v. MICRO ENCODER INC

2:04-cv-02065 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2004

Closed Date: Jan. 25, 2008

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Case Summary

In September 2004, the Seattle District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Micro Encoder, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging discrimination on the basis of age in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant refused to hire the charging party, a qualified individual who was fifty years old, as an engineer because of his age. After a couple of scheduling orders, the parties settled in January 2005 through a consent decree.The three-year decree contained a non-discrimination clause and required the defendant to: revise and distribute its EEO policy, provide EEO training for all its managerial employees, expunge the charging party's personnel file of all references to the charge of discrimination, designate a hiring coordinator to supervise the hiring process, report to the EEOC on an annual basis, post a notice of the decree, and pay $82,750 to the charging party. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

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Michele Marxkors (7/3/2007)

Clearinghouse (6/15/2017)

Documents in the Clearinghouse

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2:04-cv-02065	Docket EEOC v. Micro Encoder Inc	Jan. 28, 2005	Jan. 28, 2005 Docket
1 2:04-cv-02065	Complaint EEOC v. Micro Encoder Inc	Sept. 30, 2004	Sept. 30, 2004 Complaint
6 2:04-cv-02065	Consent Decree EEOC v. Micro Encoder Inc	Jan. 25, 2005	Jan. 25, 2005 Settlement Agreement
	EEOC Litigation Settlement Report [January 2005] EEOC v. Micro Encoder Inc No Court	Jan. 31, 2005	Jan. 31, 2005 Press Release

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Resources

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Under the Radar: Visibility and the Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits in Small and Large Firms Carly Knight, Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev	Research on how discrimination lawsuits affect corporate diversity has yielded mixed results. Qualitative studies highlight the limited efficacy of lawsuits in the typical workplace, finding that lit…	March 2022	April 1, 2022 https://cris.tau.ac.il/...

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Docket

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ECF Number	Description	Date	Link Date / Link
1	COMPLAINT and JURY DEMAND against defendant Micro Encoder Inc (Summons(es) issued) (Receipt # fee waived) , filed by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet # 2 Summons)(PM, ) Additional attachment(s) added on 10/6/2004 (PM, ). (Entered: 10/06/2004)	Sept. 30, 2004	Sept. 30, 2004
2	NOTICE of Appearance by attorney Holly M Hearn and attorney David Michael Bowman on behalf of Defendant Micro Encoder Inc (Hearn, Holly) Modified docket text on 10/8/2004 (JEM, ). (Entered: 10/07/2004)	Oct. 7, 2004	Oct. 7, 2004
3	SERVICE OF SUMMONS and Complaint returned executed upon defendant Micro Encoder Inc on 10/7/2004 (RS, ) (Entered: 10/14/2004)	Oct. 12, 2004	Oct. 12, 2004
4	ANSWER to Complaint by Micro Encoder Inc.(Hearn, Holly) (Entered: 10/25/2004)	Oct. 25, 2004	Oct. 25, 2004
5	ORDER REGARDING INITIAL DISCLOSURES, JOINT STATUS REPORT AND EARLY SETTLEMENT Joint Status Report due by 12/29/2004, by Judge Ricardo Martinez. (LC, ) (Entered: 11/16/2004)	Nov. 16, 2004	Nov. 16, 2004
	Reset Deadlines: Joint Status Report due by 1/28/2005 by stipulation of cnsl(LW) (Entered: 12/29/2004)	Dec. 29, 2004	Dec. 29, 2004
6	NOTICE by Plaintiff Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Proposed Consent Decree (Katahira, Wesley) (Entered: 01/25/2005)	Jan. 25, 2005	Jan. 25, 2005
7	ORDER APPROVING CONSENT DECREE by Judge Ricardo Martinez. (RS, ) (Entered: 01/31/2005)	Jan. 28, 2005	Jan. 28, 2005