In September 2005, the Phoenix District Office of the EEOC filed this lawsuit against Collegeville/Imagineering and Rubie's Costume Company, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona alleging discrimination on the basis of sex, female, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the defendant created a hostile work environment culminating in the constructive discharge of one complaining party. Following discovery and summary judgment motions by both parties, the parties settled the lawsuit in November 2007 through a consent decree.

The two-year decree, containing anti-discrimination and retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: make compliance reports, allow access to the EEOC for monitoring, expunge employee records and provide a neutral reference, post notice of employee rights, provide EEO training, implement a complaint resolution process, evaluate managerial staff based upon their enforcement of the Decree, agree not to retain documents regarding investigations in employee files, and pay $299,000 to be distributed among eight individuals. The docket sheet shows that no further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2009.

Daisy Manning - 04/16/2008
- 06/07/2017


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