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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. MacH Mining, LLC

7th CircuitDecember 20, 2013No. 13-2456Cited 16 times
Plaintiff WinMach Mining, LLC

Case Details

Judge(s)
Wood, Kanne, Hamilton
Status
Published
Procedural Posture
appeal
Circuit
7th Circuit

Related Laws

No specific laws identified for this ruling.

Claim Types

Discrimination

Outcome

The Seventh Circuit reversed the district court and held that an alleged failure to conciliate is not an affirmative defense to an EEOC discrimination suit, thereby denying Mach Mining's grounds for dismissal and allowing the EEOC's sex discrimination case to proceed on the merits.

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