This past week, [nap_names id=”FIRM-NAME-6″] & [nap_names id=”FIRM-NAME-4″] received a very favorable decision from the EEOC’s Baltimore Field Office granting default judgment to our client as a sanction for USPS’s gross misconduct during litigation. The case involved more than 20 non-selections of the same individual and two complete sets of discovery requests. Throughout the entire discovery process, USPS showed a disturbing lack of attention to the case. First, USPS missed its initial discovery production deadline – even then, the responses it did provide were to only one of the two outstanding sets of discovery requests. Despite repeated informal attempts to address numerous deficiencies in its discovery responses, USPS refused to provide the requested information, sometimes simply ignoring counsel’s emails. Even after the AJ granted the complainant’s motion to compel (to which the Agency did not even respond), USPS produced responses to the wrong discovery requests after the AJ’s ordered deadline. Although the AJ gave USPS another opportunity to produce responses to the correct requests as ordered, it again failed to meet the AJ’s deadline. P&K counsel filed three motions for sanctions documenting USPS’s ongoing discovery misconduct and non-compliance with the AJ’s orders. Upon granting our motion for default judgment, the AJ ordered USPS to our client in one of five positions he had previously been deemed at least minimally qualified for, or another mutually-agreeable position. Our client was represented by P&K associate Johnathan Lloyd.
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