Case: EEOC v. SONIC DRIVE-IN

1:05-cv-01033 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Filed Date: Sept. 27, 2005

Closed Date: 2009

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Case Summary

In September 2005, the EEOC district office in Phoenix, Arizona brought this suit against Sonic Drive-In, a regional fast-food chain, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. The complaint states that two pregnant former employees alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it unlawfully refused to hire and/or discharged them because of their pregnancies. Two months after the only settlement conference during the litigation, a consent d…

In the consent decree, the parties agreed that the defendant would pay the women a total of $23,500, refrain from retaliating and discriminating on the basis of sex, institute and distribute a non-discrimination policy, revise any existing policies, post an EEO notice, provide EEO training, submit complaint/compliance reports, and allow the EEOC unfettered access to all consent decree documentation. No fees or costs were awarded. The terms of the agreement runs for three years. The docket sheet doesn't show any further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2009.

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Joel Pettit (7/3/2007)

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Documents in the Clearinghouse

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1:05-cv-01033	Docket EEOC v. RWW Enterprises, Inc, et al	Oct. 26, 2006	Oct. 26, 2006 Docket
1 1:05-cv-01033	Complaint Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. RWW Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a Sonic Drive-In	Sept. 27, 2005	Sept. 27, 2005 Complaint
4 1:05-cv-01033	First Amended Complaint Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Richard Donaldson, RWW Enterprises, Inc., and M&D Industries, d/b/a Sonic Drive-In	Jan. 17, 2006	Jan. 17, 2006 Complaint
23 1:05-cv-01033	Consent Decree Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Richard Donaldson, RWW Enterprises, Inc., and M&D Industries d/b/a Sonic Drive-In	Oct. 26, 2006	Oct. 26, 2006 Settlement Agreement

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Resources

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Under the Radar: Visibility and the Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits in Small and Large Firms Carly Knight, Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev	Research on how discrimination lawsuits affect corporate diversity has yielded mixed results. Qualitative studies highlight the limited efficacy of lawsuits in the typical workplace, finding that lit…	April 1, 2022	April 1, 2022 https://cris.tau.ac.il/...

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Docket

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ECF Number	Description	Date	Link Date / Link
1	COMPLAINT for Discrimination w/jury demand (counsel to submit summons at a later date) (referred to Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi) (nc) (Entered: 09/28/2005)	Sept. 27, 2005	Sept. 27, 2005 Clearinghouse
	LETTER re: consent to proceed before a US Magistrate Judge (nc) (Entered: 09/28/2005)	Sept. 27, 2005	Sept. 27, 2005
	SUMMONS issued to Richard Donaldson (sl) (Entered: 10/06/2005)	Oct. 6, 2005	Oct. 6, 2005
2	NOTICE by plaintiff of refusal to consent to proceed before a U.S Magistrate Judge (sl) (Entered: 10/07/2005)	Oct. 7, 2005	Oct. 7, 2005
3	MINUTE ORDER: transferring case to the Santa Fe Division and reassigning case from Magistrate Judge Alan Torgerson to District Judge Judith C. Herrera (cc: all counsel*) (sl) (Entered: 10/11/2005)	Oct. 11, 2005	Oct. 11, 2005
4	AMENDED COMPLAINT [1-1] by plaintiff; jury demand; adding Richard Donaldson, M & D Industries (sl) (Entered: 01/17/2006)	Jan. 17, 2006	Jan. 17, 2006 Clearinghouse
5	ANSWER by RWW Enterprises, Inc, Richard Donaldson, M & D Industries [4-1] (sl) (Entered: 02/15/2006)	Feb. 15, 2006	Feb. 15, 2006
6	ACCEPTANCE/ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SERVICE by defendants on 1/18/06 (sl) (Entered: 02/15/2006)	Feb. 15, 2006	Feb. 15, 2006
7	INITIAL SCHEDULING ORDER by Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi Rule 16 scheduling conference set for 4/19/06 at 11:00 am; provisional discovery plan and IPTR due on 4/12/06 (cc: all counsel*) (sl) (Entered: 02/23/2006)	Feb. 23, 2006	Feb. 23, 2006
8	NOTICE by defendants' counsel of unavailability of counsel from 5/22/06 through 5/31/06 (sl) (Entered: 04/10/2006)	April 10, 2006	April 10, 2006
9	PROVISIONAL DISCOVERY PLAN by the parties* (kd) (Entered: 04/12/2006)	April 11, 2006	April 11, 2006
10	CERTIFICATE of service by plaintiff of initial disclosures to counsel on 4/13/06* (sl) (Entered: 04/13/2006)	April 13, 2006	April 13, 2006
11	CLERK'S MINUTES: before Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi Rule 16 scheduling conference held (sl) (Entered: 04/19/2006)	April 19, 2006	April 19, 2006
12	ORDER by Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi setting settlement conference for 7/18/06 at 9:00 am (cc: all counsel*) (sl) (Entered: 04/20/2006)	April 20, 2006	April 20, 2006
13	CERTIFICATE of service by plaintiff of first request for admissions, first set of interrogatories and first request for production of documents to counsel on 5/8/06* (sl) (Entered: 05/08/2006)	May 8, 2006	May 8, 2006
14	CERTIFICATE by defts of Service of 1st set of interrog(s) to counsel on 05/09/06 (nc) Modified on 05/16/2006 (Entered: 05/12/2006)	May 11, 2006	May 11, 2006
15	INITIAL PRE-TRIAL REPORT by District Judge Judith C. Herrera and Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi; Discovery set for 8/16/06; mtn filing ddl set for 10/5/06; proposed pretrial order due 12/21/06; pretrial conference set for 2:00 p.m. on 2/8/07; jury trial set for 9:00 a.m. on 2/20/07 in Albuquerque, NM; Estimated # of Trial Days: 5; Chances of Settlement: unknown (cc: all counsel) (mjr) (Entered: 05/12/2006)	May 12, 2006	May 12, 2006
16	ORDER by Magistrate Judge Richard L. Puglisi resetting settlement conference for 8/14/06 at 1:00 pm (cc: all counsel*) (sl) (Entered: 05/25/2006)	May 25, 2006	May 25, 2006
17	CERTIFICATE by defts of Service of responses to 1st request for production, joint answers to 1st set of interrog(s) & joint responses to 1st request for admissions to counsel on 06/09/06 (nc) (Entered: 06/15/2006)	June 14, 2006	June 14, 2006
18	CERTIFICATE of service by plaintiff of responses and objections to defts' first set of interrogatories to counsel on 6/19/06* (sl) (Entered: 06/20/2006)	June 20, 2006	June 20, 2006
19	NOTICE by plaintiff's counsel of unavailability from 7/24/06 through 8/4/06 * (sl) (Entered: 07/11/2006)	July 11, 2006	July 11, 2006
20	CERTIFICATE by defts of service of supplemental interrogatories to counsel on 8/4/06 (eh) (Entered: 08/07/2006)	Aug. 4, 2006	Aug. 4, 2006
21	CERTIFICATE of service by plaintiff of supplementtal responses and objection to deft's first set of interrogatories to counsel on 8/14/06* (sl) (Entered: 08/14/2006)	Aug. 14, 2006	Aug. 14, 2006
22	SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE held before Magistrate Judge Puglisi; case settled* (dmw) (Entered: 08/18/2006)	Aug. 16, 2006	Aug. 16, 2006
23	CONSENT DECREE by District Judge Judith C. Herrera (see document for specifics) dismissing case (cc: all counsel) (mjr) (Entered: 10/26/2006)	Oct. 26, 2006	Oct. 26, 2006 Clearinghouse