The EEOC sued Creative Playthings, LTD., a national producer and distributor of playground swing sets, on July 9, 2004 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The EEOC's complaint is not available, however, the intervenor's complaint is and states the causes of action for this suit. Creative allegedly violated Title VII when it discriminated against the intervenor, who intervened in October 2004, based on race (African American) for his promotion of two African American individuals and for his complaints of retaliation against himself. The parties entered into a consent decree on September 13, 2005 which has an effective period of three years.

This consent decree required the defendant to: pay $221,360 to a class of 6 individuals, pay $53,640 in attorney's fees, to expunge the employment records of the claimants, to post notice of rights, to develop an anti-discrimination and harassment policy, to distribute this policy to all employees, to provide annual training to all supervisory and management positions, and to provide a 24 hour toll-free message center for employees to lodge complaints of discrimination. The decree was to last for three years. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

Keri Livingston - 06/11/2007
- 06/11/2017


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