EIRHART v. LIBBEY-OWENS-FORD CO.

No. 91-3603.

996 F.2d 837 (1993)

Sherry EIRHART and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. LIBBEY-OWENS-FORD COMPANY and LOF Glass Incorporated, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Meites (argued), Lynn S. Frackman, Bonnie L. Beck-Fries, Paul W. Mollica, Meites, Frackman, Mulder & Burger, Chicago, IL, for Eirhart.

Margaret Herbert, John C. Hendrickson, E.E.O.C., Chicago, IL, William L. Robinson, Steven L. Brenneman, E.E.O.C., Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC, for E.E.O.C.

James P. DeNardo, McKenna, Storer, Rowe, White & Farrug, Chicago, IL, Robert S. Soderstrom (argued), J.W. Storer, James R. Murray, Jacqueline A. Criswell, Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, Chicago, IL, for Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. and LOF Glass Inc.

Before CUMMINGS and MANION, Circuit Judges, and WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns the enforcement of a 1988 consent decree between the parties which settled a Title VII lawsuit against defendants Libbey-Owens-Ford Company and LOF Glass Incorporated (collectively "LOF"). At issue was LOF's minimum height and weight requirements used in hiring employees. Plaintiffs Sherry Eirhart and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") alleged in a class action that LOF's policy discriminated...

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