In August 2005, the Memphis District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against River Waffles, LLC and Collis Foods, Inc. (d/b/a Waffle House Restaurant) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. We do not have a copy of the complaint. However, it appears from the consent decree that the complaint alleged that the defendants violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (the "ADA") by terminating the charging party's employment because he had Hepatitis C. After some orders regarding an extension of time for the defendants to file their answer to the complaint, the parties settled in February 2006 through a consent decree.

The three-year decree, containing non-discrimination and non-retaliation clauses, required the defendants to: provide ADA training for all their employees at their Jackson location, post a notice of the decree, continue to post the posters required by the ADA, and pay the charging party $50,000. The docket sheet does not show any further enforcement; the case was presumably closed in 2009.

Michele Marxkors - 07/25/2007
- 06/12/2017


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