United States Seventh Circuit

A distric toucrt judge was correct to rule that the EEOC may obtain monetary relief on behalf of individuals who, having failed to file timely administrative charges under the ADEA, are barred from bringing their own suits because enforcement the EEOC's authority is not derivative of the legal rights of individuals even when it is seeking to make them whole.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/17/2006
• Published 02/17/2006

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John E. Bucheit, Grippo & Elden, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant., Deborah L. Hamilton, E.E.O.C., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.