Legal Opinion
Easterling v. Connecticut, Department of Correction
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided January 4, 2010No. Civil Action No. 3:08-cv-0826 (JCH)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING RE: PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR CLASS CERTIFICATION (Doc. No. 57)
JANET C. HALL, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
In 2004, the plaintiff, Cherie Easterling, applied to work as a Correction Officer (“CO”) with the defendant, State of Connecticut Department of Correction (the “DOC”). Easterling brings this action on behalf of herself and a class of similarly situated applicants against the DOC, asserting that the DOC violated Title VTI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e, et seq. (“Title VII”), by using an employment practice— a discriminatory physical fitness test—that caused a…
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