Coleman v. Sowders

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that “[b]oth Title VII and the ADEA provide for EEOC enforcement actions in addition to individual suits brought in the employee’s own behalf or for others similarly situated”
• leaving open the possibility that an attorney-client relationship could exist if a particular claimant expressly asserted a desire to have the EEOC’s counsel render confidential legal advice
• If an individual “has expressly asserted his desire to have EEOC counsel render him confidential legal advice, and that desire is demonstrable through affidavits or other documentation... then [the court] may conclude that EEOC counsel has an attorney-client relationship with that individual.”
• applying same analysis in ADEA and Title VII actions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).