Filed Date: Oct. 20, 2025
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On October 20, 2025, Plaintiff Leah Cross filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). On September 15, 2025, the EEOC issued a memorandum (“the Disparate Impact Rule”), directing EEOC field offices to administratively close, by September 30, 2025, all investigations of Title VII and ADEA charges alleging disparate-impact discrimination. The Disparate Impact Rule denies workers like Plaintiff Cross their statutory right to an EEOC investigation and conciliation process. Ms. Cross filed a class-based charge of discrimination against her former employer, Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”), alleging that Amazon’s policy of denying delivery drivers bathroom breaks had a disparate impact based on sex. The EEOC began to investigate her charge, but it abruptly ended the investigation and administratively closed her charge on September 29, 2025 under the Disparate Impact Rule.
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Gilbride, Karla A. (District of Columbia)
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Last updated Oct. 22, 2025, 10:34 a.m.
State / Territory: District of Columbia
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Trump Administration 2.0: Challenges to the Government
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Filing Date: Oct. 20, 2025
Case Ongoing: Yes
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