Supreme Courts slaps down EEOC on subpoenas

The Washington Examiner reports:

The Supreme Court on Monday said it supports a lower-court ruling that limited the authority of the Equal Employment Opportunity Employment Commission to subpoena companies for information when it is bringing a case against an employer.

In a 7-1 decision, the justices slapped down the EEOC's argument that a district court should have backed the EEOC's effort to fully enforce its request for documents, even after the company argued the request was too broad.

The case, McLane v. EEOC, involved a complaint by a woman who alleged gender discrimination after she was fired by the company. The worker's job involved manual labor and required a physical exam, which she had failed three times before she was eventually fired.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor authored the "no" to the EEOC !