The Office of the United States Attorney brought this suit on behalf of the EEOC in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Northeastern Products Co., a division of Campbell Soup Co., Inc., in September 1997. We do not have a copy of the complaint, so the nature of the allegations is unknown. Five private plaintiffs were allowed to intervene in the suit. The defendant subsequently filed motions for summary judgment against these private plaintiffs that were granted in part and denied in part. The defendant also filed a motion for judgment as a matter of law that was also granted in part and denied in part. The jury verdict after trial determined that one of the intervenor plaintiffs did not have a cause of action. Additionally, the defendant and one of the private plaintiffs reached a settlement, the terms of which are unknown. The EEOC and intervenor plaintiffs appealed the judgment in May 2000. The judgment was affirmed.

Justin Kanter - 08/14/2008


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