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· 1/26/2011

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission

Citations

  • 631 F.3d 174
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 1661
  • 111 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 481

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that EEOC investigations under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act can lead to federal enforcement actions against state governments
  • explaining that “[l]egislative acts ... typically involve the adoption of prospective, legislative-type rules, rules that establish a general policy affecting the larger population” (internal quotations, citation, and alterations omitted)
  • explaining that legislative acts “typically involve the ‘adoption of] prospective, legislative-type rules.”’
  • “Legislative privilege against compulsory evidentiary process exists to safeguard this legislative immunity and to further encourage the republican values it promotes.”

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Judges: Wilkinson, Niemeyer, Duffy

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