E.E.O.C. v. K-MART CORP.

Nos. 81-1722, 82-1909.

694 F.2d 1055 (1982)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. K-MART CORPORATION and K-Mart Enterprises, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. In re EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Petitioner.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol Cresswell Moschandreas, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Equal Employment Opportunity Advisory Counsel, Douglas S. McDowell, McGuiness & Williams, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae.

Richard T. Sampson-Kathleen Pontone, Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md., Peter J. Palmer, K-Mart Corp., International Headquarters, Troy, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before KEITH and JONES, Circuit Judges, and MILES, Chief District Judge.


KEITH, Circuit Judge.

A judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan issued an order requiring the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") to produce former EEOC Commissioner Ethel Bent Walsh and certain current EEOC employees for deposition. The EEOC petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus ordering the district court to vacate that discovery order. For the reasons below, we grant the writ of mandamus and vacate the district...

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