EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COM'N v. WOOLCO DEPT. STORE

No. 71-1391.

460 F.2d 301 (1972)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WOOLCO DEPARTMENT STORE, a division of F. W. Woolworth Co., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 24, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lutz Alexander Prager, EEOC, Stanley P. Hebert, Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., Charles H. White, Area Atty., EEOC, New Orleans, La., Jack de J. Pemberton, Jr., Deputy General Counsel, Julia P. Cooper, Chief, Appellate Section, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

David L. McComb, New Orleans, La., Kenneth W. Greenawalt, Davies, Hardy, Ives & Lawther, New York City, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, La., Christopher J. Hoey, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and INGRAHAM and RONEY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Succinctly stated, the narrow issue presented by this appeal is whether the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is entitled to seek a court order against what it claims is threatened nullification of its statutory investigative responsibility allegedly resulting from a private employer's retaliatory firing of an employee because he filed a discrimination charge pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights...

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