In the EEOC’s appeal from a denial of its petition to enforce an administrative subpoena issued to UPS seeking information about how religious exemptions to UPS’s Uniform and Personal Appearance Guidelines were handled nationwide, the order is reversed where the district court, in finding that national information was not relevant to the charges being investigated by the EEOC, applied too restrictive a standard of relevance.

Read EEOC v. United Parcel Serv., Inc., No. 08-5348

Appellate Information

Argued: August 24, 2009

Decided: November 19, 2009

Judges

Per Curiam

Counsel

For Appellant:

Julie L. Gantz, James L. Lee, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC

For Appellee:

Wendy Johnson Lario, Day Pitney LLP, Morristown, NJ

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