In Re Sears, Roebuck & Co. Employment Practices Litigation

OPINION AND ORDER

Before ANDREW A. CAFFREY, Chairman, and ROY W. HARPER, CHARLES R. WEINER, EDWARD S. NORTHROP, and ROBERT H. SCHNACKE, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.

This litigation consists of five actions pending in five federal districts: one each in the Northern District of Illinois; the Northern District of Georgia; the Middle District of Alabama; the Western District of Tennessee; and the Southern District of New York.

The present five actions between the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Sears, Roebuck and Company (Sears) have evolved over a period of years. On August…