Rachel Reeb v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Belmont Correctional Institution

I write separately to express my disagreement with the majority’s holding. The majority improperly holds that the plaintiffs, female corrections officers, who claim that their employer Belmont Correctional Institution discriminated against them, based on their sex, cannot bring a class action under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(b)(2) to collectively enforce the rights and remedies afforded for such violations under both the Civil Rights Act of 1991, 42 *652U.S.C. § 1981a, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e.

Rejecting the majority’s analysis, I would affirm the district court and…