8th Circuit Grants EEOC Petition For Rehearing In The CRST Litigation, But Holds Against The EEOC Again And Renews Its Criticism Of Improper EEOC Investigation And Conciliation Tactics

As the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission this week can attest, what one hand giveth, the other may taketh away. 

Just one day after vacating its already well known February 22, 2012 opinion and judgment in EEOC v. CRST Van Expedited, Inc., 670 F.3d 897 (8th Cir. 2012), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued an opinion on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - in EEOC v. CRST Van Expedited, Inc., Case Nos. 09-3764, 09-3765 & 10-1682 (8th Cir. May 8, 2012) - containing the same resounding criticism of the EEOC's  “sue first, ask questions later” tactics previously set forth in its vacated February 22 opinion. 

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