10th Circuit Affirms Denial Of Enforcement Of EEOC Subpoena

Mealey's (March 1, 2017, 10:29 AM EST) -- DENVER — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission failed to establish a connection between a woman’s discrimination complaint against her former employer and its request for information related to its investigation of a suspected companywide pattern or practice of discriminating against pregnant and disabled employees, a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb. 27, finding that a trial court did not abuse its discretion in declining to enforce the EEOC’s administrative subpoena on the employer (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. TriCore Reference Laboratories, No. 16-2053, 10th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 3481)....