Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Watkins Motor Lines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 23, 2009No. 08-2483PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
In June 2004, after experiencing three episodes of employee-on-employee murder or attempted murder, Watkins Motor Lines decided that it would no longer hire anyone who had been convicted of a violent crime. Three months later Watkins rejected Lyndon Jackson’s application because of his criminal record. He filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which opened an investigation to determine whether the policy had a disparate impact on minority applicants — and, if so, whether it was “job related for the positions] in question and consistent…
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