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Trucking firm to pay $50,000 to end lawsuit
IOWA CITY (AP) ? One of the nation?s largest trucking companies will pay $50,000 to end a high-profile sexual harassment lawsuit ? but could recoup millions it spent fighting the case.
CRST Van Expedited agreed in a settlement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to the payment to a Texas woman to avoid trial. The woman?s claims were the last remaining in a case that started in 2007 with EEOC ...
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Sep. 30, 2018 8:06 pm
IOWA CITY (AP) ? One of the nation?s largest trucking companies will pay $50,000 to end a high-profile sexual harassment lawsuit ? but could recoup millions it spent fighting the case.
CRST Van Expedited agreed in a settlement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to the payment to a Texas woman to avoid trial. The woman?s claims were the last remaining in a case that started in 2007 with EEOC seeking relief for 270 women who?d allegedly been harassed.
The settlement allows Cedar Rapids-based CRST to ask a judge to order EEOC to pay its legal fees for defending claims that were dismissed. A judge earlier awarded CRST $4.5 million, but was overturned.
The case produced an appeals court ruling making it more difficult for EEOC to bring class-action lawsuits in several states.
