Legal Opinion

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. K-Mart Corp.

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided December 8, 1982No. Nos. 81-1722, 82-1909PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

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 judge’s order. 526 F.Supp. 121.

FACTS

On September 28, 1979, former EEOC Commissioner Ethel Bent Walsh filed a charge of…

2Cases cited32 opinions

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. 30 Fair empl.prac.cas. 788, 30 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 33,212 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. K-Mart Corporation and K-Mart Enterprises, Inc., in Re Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1982

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