Current Cases

On March 28, 2017, Outten & Golden, LLP filed an Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (“EEOC”) charge on behalf of Walter Pickett and a putative class of other job applicants similarly impacted by DHL Supply Chain’s (“DHL’s”) criminal background check policies and practices. Mr. Pickett alleges that DHL violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”) by refusing to hire as employees individuals like him with criminal histories. According to his EEOC charge, Mr. Pickett was hired for a temporary warehouse position in February 2016 by Snider-Blake, a staffing agency...

Case Introduction On October 30, 2015, Outten & Golden LLP filed a nationwide class action against The Geo Group, Inc. (“Geo Group”), and Accurate Background, Inc., on behalf of plaintiff Eric Keels and all similarly situated applicants for employment with Geo Group. The lawsuit alleges that Geo Group and Accurate Background, Inc. systematically violated federal law in the way they conducted criminal background checks of Geo Group job applicants. The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires that, before denying or revoking a job offer based on background check results, employers must...

On Wednesday, June 26, 2019, Outten and Golden LLP, along with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and Youth Represents, filed a class action lawsuit against Macy’s, Inc., owner and operator of hundreds of retail stores (collectively “Macy’s”), challenging its use of an overbroad and unnecessarily punitive criminal history screen in making hiring and termination decisions. Plaintiff The Fortune Society (“Fortune”) brings the lawsuit on behalf of itself and its participants seeking to hold Macy’s accountable for violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII...

On August 14, 2008, Outten & Golden’s client filed a class-wide race discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Madison Square Garden alleging that MSG discriminates against African-American job applicants by illegally using criminal history reports in making hiring decisions. The charge alleges that, by revoking an offer of employment to Outten & Golden’s client, MSG violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and engaged in a policy or pattern and practice of discrimination against African-American job applicants. A corporate policy that...

On August 15, 2018, Outten & Golden filed suit against NTT Data, Inc., one of the largest information technology services providers in the world. The suit challenges NTT’s blanket rejection of job applicants with criminal records, even where their criminal history has no bearing on an ability to perform the work in question. Plaintiffs bring class claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, challenging the disproportionate impact of NTT’s background check policies and practices on African American applicants—and because NTT’s policies and practices import into the employment...

On April 5, 2018, Outten & Golden LLP along with our co-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., filed a disparate impact class action lawsuit Target Corp. in the federal district court for the Southern District of New York. The case, Times v. Target Corp. , was brought by Plaintiffs Carnella Times and Erving Smith and an Organizational Plaintiff, The Fortune Society. The lawsuit alleges that Target violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by utilizing a job applicant screening process that systematically eliminated qualified African-Americans and Latinos from...