Legal Opinion
Richardson v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 7, 2008No. Docket 06-0474-cvPublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge.
We are asked to decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids the inclusion of an election-of-remedies provision in a collective bargaining agreement, cf. EEOC v. SunDance Rehab. Corp., 466 F.3d 490, 497 (6th Cir.2006), or, in the alternative, whether adherence to that provision constitutes discrimination. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) says that it does. The Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (“CHRO”), not incidentally also a defendant in this action, assures us that the EEOC is wrong.
We…
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