In January 2001, the EEOC's San Francisco office filed this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California alleging that defendant Con-Way Western Express violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it failed to provide a reasonable religious accommodation for an employee and then retaliated against that employee by first suspending and then firing him. The aggrieved party successfully intervened in the case early and the case was referred to Early Neutral Evaluation which did not prove fruitful. Following a stipulated protective order and a small skirmish over an interrogatory question, the parties reached two separate settlement agreements in October 2001 and the case was dismissed with prejudice. The EEOC and the defendant agreed that the defendant would provide a training program for its supervisory employees. The intervenor and defendant reached a confidential settlement agreement.

Tony Friedman - 07/13/2007


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