The Cleveland district office of the EEOC brought this suit against Overnite Transportation Company, a major transportation company, in June 2002, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The complaint alleged that Overnite refused to hire qualified individuals due to their epilepsy in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The defendant filed a motion for summary judgment in April 2004 and the EEOC filed a motion for partial summary judgment that same month. In July of 2006 the defendant's motion was granted in part and denied in part and the EEOC's motion was denied. The parties settled in April 2008 by entry of a consent decree.

The consent decree, which has duration of two years, requires defendant to refrain from discriminating and to post a notice regarding this suit. It required the defendant to conduct training for its Regional Human Resources staff responsible for the Columbus and Memphis facilities, where the discrimination was alleged to occur, and to report on this training to the EEOC. If the EEOC has reasonable cause to believe that the defendant has violated any term of the decree, it is to notify the defendant who will then have ten days to remedy the breach. Finally, the defendant agreed to pay a total of $110,000.00 to two complainants who will then waive their claims against the defendant. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2010.

Shankar Viswanathan - 05/28/2008
- 06/11/2017


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