Supreme Court Docket Report - December 4, 2015

Today, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases of interest to the business community:

Title VII—Award of Attorney's Fees to Prevailing Defendant

CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. EEOC, No. 14-1375

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides for an award of attorney's fees and costs to prevailing parties. In Christiansburg Garment Co. v. EEOC, the Supreme Court held that prevailing defendants in a Title VII suit are entitled to an award of fees if they can show that the plaintiffs' claims are "frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation." The EEOC brought Title VII claims against CRST, a long-haul trucking firm, alleging that CRST female employees had been sexually harassed in the workplace. The district court dismissed 67 of those individual claims because the EEOC failed to fulfill its statutory obligation to investigate the claims, find reasonable cause, and attempt to conciliate them prior to bringing suit. The district court awarded