Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 24, 1985No. 84-1588PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
PELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
Appellants, thirty-nine former employees of Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc. (Walker or the company), appeal from a consent decree entered in settlement of a sex discrimination in employment suit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the company. The district court permitted appellants to intervene for purposes of appeal. The issue on appeal is whether the district court abused its discretion when it approved the decree, which grants limited relief to the class of employees as a whole and virtually no relief to those employees, many of them…
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