Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Vucitech
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 16, 1988No. Nos. 87-1767, 87-2011PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
These appeals present a variety of interesting questions arising out of a protracted effort by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to fix personal liability on an employer’s officers for a practice not authoritatively determined to be discriminatory until years after they committed it, and on a successor of the employer.
The three individual defendants, whom we shall refer to as the “Vucitech group,” were (together with a fourth person, now dead) the officers and shareholders of MTC Gear Corporation, a closely held corporation engaged in the manufacture of gears…
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- Gallenberg Equipment, Inc. v. Agromac International, Inc.District Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1998
- 46 Fair empl.prac.cas. 550, 46 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 37,932, 9 Employee Benefits Ca 1787 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Cross-Appellant v. Alex Vucitech, Werner Koesling, and Sylvia Mutchnik, and Profile Gear Corporation, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1988