Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Peabody Western Coal Company
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 10, 2005No. 02-17305PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) filed this action against Peabody Western Coal Company (“Peabody”) for maintaining a Navajo hiring preference at the mines that Peabody leases from the Navajo Nation. The EEOC alleges that Peabody has discriminated against non-Navajo Native Americans, including two members of the Hopi Nation and one member of the Otoe tribe, in violation of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(l).
On appeal, we are presented with three questions. The first is whether, under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19, it is feasible to…
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