EEOC's Birmingham, AL office and Washington, DC office jointly filed this retaliation lawsuit against the defendant, Vulcan Lincoln Mercury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on 05/18/2005. The defendant, a division of Serra Automotive Group, was a new and used car dealer in Birmingham, Alabama. EEOC alleged that three former managers of defendant were subject to retaliatory discharge because they participated in an internal investigation of another employee's sexual harassment claim. The individual complainants filed motions to intervene but the district court did not make a decision on the motions before the case was resolved.

The parties settled fairly quickly after the case was referred to mediation. The district court entered a consent judgment and dismissed the case on 10/31/2005.

Under the three-year consent decree, the defendant agreed to pay the three individual complainants a total sum of $330,000. The defendant also agreed to expunge record of the lawsuit from the complainants' personnel files and provide neutral references in the future. Additionally, the defendant was required to host trainings, post a notice of the lawsuit, and distribute its revised anti-retaliation policy. The defendant was allowed to apply for shortening the duration of the consent decree after two years. The docket sheet shows that no further enforcement took place; the case was presumably closed in 2008.

Justin Kanter - 07/10/2007
- 06/07/2017


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