Case: EEOC v. Frontier Materials Concrete

4:03-cv-00856 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: March 10, 2003

Closed Date: March 2, 2007

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Case Summary

In March 2003, the Houston District Office of the EEOC brought this suit against Frontier Materials Company, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. We do not have a copy of the complaint. However, it appears from the consent decree that the complaint alleged that the defendant violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to promote and appropriately compensate the charging party, an African-American employee, because of his race. After some discovery, the defendant filed a motion for partial summary judgment in December 2003 which was denied in January 2004. Thereafter, the EEOC filed a motion for partial summary judgment in February. However, the EEOC's motion was never resolved because the parties settled through a consent decree in early March 2004.

The three-year decree, containing non-discrimination and non-retaliation clauses, required the defendant to: post a non-discrimination notice, provide EEO training for its managers in the Houston area, report to the EEOC at specified intervals, distribute the required notice to its managers, provide the charging party with a neutral employment reference, and pay $45,000 to the charging party.

The decree was entered in 2004 and scheduled to last 2007. No further docket entries exist, so the case is closed.

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Summary Authors

Michele Marxkors (7/2/2007)

Clearinghouse (12/26/2018)

Documents in the Clearinghouse

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4:03-cv-00856	Docket [PACER] EEOC v. Frontier Materials	March 1, 2004	March 1, 2004 Docket
13 4:03-cv-00856	Order [Denying Partial Summary Judgment] EEOC v. Frontier Materials Company, Inc.	Jan. 29, 2004	Jan. 29, 2004 Order/Opinion
16 4:03-cv-00856	Consent Decree EEOC v. Frontier Materials Company, Inc.	March 2, 2004	March 2, 2004 Settlement Agreement

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Under the Radar: Visibility and the Effects of Discrimination Lawsuits in Small and Large Firms Carly Knight, Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev	Research on how discrimination lawsuits affect corporate diversity has yielded mixed results. Qualitative studies highlight the limited efficacy of lawsuits in the typical workplace, finding that lit…	March 2022	April 1, 2022 https://cris.tau.ac.il/...

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Docket

Last updated March 23, 2025, 9:16 a.m.

ECF Number	Description	Date	Link Date / Link
1	COMPLAINT by Equal Employment Opp filed; (bchurchill) (Entered: 03/12/2003)	March 10, 2003	March 10, 2003
2	Order setting Initial Pretrial and Scheduling Conference on 3:45 6/23/03 by telephone before Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt and Order to Disclose Interested Persons, filed. Parties notified. (bchurchill) (Entered: 03/12/2003)	March 10, 2003	March 10, 2003
	1 SUMMONS issued for Frontier Materials (bchurchill) (Entered: 03/12/2003)	March 10, 2003	March 10, 2003
3	CERTIFICATE OF INTERESTED PARTIES by Equal Employment Opp , filed. (sfedele) (Entered: 03/18/2003)	March 17, 2003	March 17, 2003
4	RETURN OF SERVICE executed as to Frontier Materials 3/18/03 filed. Answer due on 4/7/03 for Frontier Materials (psmith) (Entered: 03/20/2003)	March 20, 2003	March 20, 2003
5	ANSWER to Complaint by Frontier Materials (Added attorney Lionel M Schooler), filed. (psmith) (Entered: 03/28/2003)	March 27, 2003	March 27, 2003
6	CERTIFICATE OF INTERESTED PARTIES by Frontier Materials , filed. (psmith) (Entered: 03/28/2003)	March 27, 2003	March 27, 2003
7	JOINT DISCOVERY/Case Management Plan by Equal Employment Opp, Frontier Materials , filed. (sfedele) (Entered: 06/11/2003)	June 11, 2003	June 11, 2003
8	ORDER following telephone scheduling conference setting Pltf expert witness list submitted by 10/30/03 ; Report furnished by 10/30/03; Deft expert witness list submitted by 11/30/03 Report furnished by 11/30/03; Discovery cutoff 1/31/04 ; Deadline for filing all dispositive motions 1/31/04 ;Joint Pretrial order to be submitted on or before 3/1/04 ; Docket call deadline 3/1/04 at 11:30 AM; before Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt , entered. Jury Trial. Initial disclosures due on or before 6/30/03. Parties notified. Trial Term: 4-5 days ( Signed by Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt ) (sfedele) (Entered: 06/25/2003)	June 24, 2003	June 24, 2003
	Deadline updated; Initial disclosures due on or before 6/30/03 (sfedele) (Entered: 06/27/2003)	June 24, 2003	June 24, 2003
9	MOTION to quash deposition by American Horizon, Motion Docket Date 12/3/03 [9-1] motion , filed. (sfedele) (Entered: 11/18/2003)	Nov. 13, 2003	Nov. 13, 2003
10	ORDER ; granting American Hrizon Concrete, Inc's [9-1] motion to quash deposition , entered; Parties notified. ( signed by Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt ) (kprice) (Entered: 12/09/2003)	Dec. 8, 2003	Dec. 8, 2003
11	MOTION for partial summary judgment on issue of post-employment backpay by Frontier Materials, Motion Docket Date 1/11/04 [11-1] motion , filed. (khightower) (Entered: 12/29/2003)	Dec. 22, 2003	Dec. 22, 2003
12	RESPONSE by Equal Employment Opp to Deft's [11-1] motion for partial summary judgment on issue of post-employment backpay , filed. (dhansen) (Entered: 01/12/2004)	Jan. 12, 2004	Jan. 12, 2004
14	MOTION for partial summary judgment by Equal Employment Opp, Motion Docket Date 2/22/04 [14-1] motion , filed. (sfedele) (Entered: 02/04/2004)	Feb. 2, 2004	Feb. 2, 2004
15	AGREED MOTION for entry of consent decree by Equal Employment Opp, Frontier Materials , filed. (sfedele) (Entered: 02/27/2004)	Feb. 27, 2004	Feb. 27, 2004
16	CONSENT DECREE, entered; Parties notified ( signed by Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt ) (amaly) (Entered: 03/02/2004)	March 1, 2004	March 1, 2004
	Case closed (amaly) (Entered: 03/02/2004)	March 1, 2004	March 1, 2004