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VF Jeanswear LP v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 17-16786 · judgment May 1, 2019

Certiorari denied · April 6, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Ninth Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a business petitioner.

Questions presented

  1. Whether Title VII authorizes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to continue investigating a charge of discrimination after the Commission issues the charging party a right-to-sue notice and after the charging party pursues private litigation.

  2. Whether the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission can rely on a charge of discrimination to demand information from an employer about acts or practices not affecting the charging party.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
James Marion Powell
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 6 conferences

Argument & decision

Decided April 6, 2020.

Proceedings

  1. Apr 06 2020
    Petition DENIED. Justice Thomas, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. (Detached Opinion)
  2. Mar 30 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/3/2020.
  3. Mar 23 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/27/2020.
  4. Mar 16 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2020.
  5. Mar 02 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/6/2020.
  6. Feb 24 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/28/2020.
  7. Jan 22 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2020.
  8. Jan 20 2020
    Reply of petitioner VF Jeanswear, LP filed.
  9. Jan 03 2020
    Brief of respondent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in opposition filed.
  10. Nov 21 2019
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 4, 2019 to January 3, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
  11. Nov 21 2019
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including January 3, 2020.
  12. Nov 04 2019
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 4, 2019.
  13. Oct 31 2019
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 4, 2019 to December 4, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
  14. Oct 01 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 4, 2019)