The Milwaukee area office of the EEOC brought this suit against Leiferman Enterprises, LLC doing business as Harmon Autoglass in September 2006 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Auto Glass Repair and Windshield Replacement Services, Inc. is also named as a defendant, due to its status as successor to Leiferman. The complaint alleges that, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Leiferman terminated an employee due to his diabetes. Auto Glass Repair and the EEOC settled by entry of a consent decree in February 2008 which did not resolve the pending claims against Leiferman.

The Auto Glass consent decree required it to distribute its disability discrimination policy to all employees and to any new employees for two years, and to institute a training program aimed at educating employees about the Americans with Disabilities Act. Auto Glass was also required to post a public notice regarding this discrimination suit for one year and to certify its compliance with those requirements to the EEOC. Additionally, the business was required to make written reports to the EEOC regarding requests for reasonable accommodation of disabilities and to retain related records. It also agreed to pay $45,000.00 in lost wages and damages to complainant.

In May 2008, the EEOC asked the court to enter a default judgment against Leiferman as its counsel withdrew, was never replaced, and it failed to defend the action further. The court entered a default judgment against Leiferman on June 16, 2008, enjoining it from engaging in any employment practice that discriminates on the basis of disability. It was also required to implement a training and post public notice about the suit for three years, which was also how long the consent decree was set to last. Leiferman was ordered to pay $112,150 which included lost wages in the amount of $62,150 and combined compensatory and punitive damages in the amount of $50,000.

There has been no further activity on the docket and so this case presumably closed in 2011.

Shankar Viswanathan - 05/27/2008
Abigail DeHart - 05/18/2018


compress summary