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To: MeanWestTexan
It wasn't laughed out of court ---- the EEOC won, and it went to the U.S. Supreme Court before getting reversed!

Wow, I didn't know that. I remember Hooters running an ad with a really hairy-chested guy dressed up in a Hooters outfit saying "Hi, I'm Vinny and I'll be your waitress" to make fun of the EEOC. It was hilarious.

68 posted on 09/13/2005 7:45:25 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("The right to bear weapons is the right to be free." A. E. Van Vogt)
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To: jalisco555; MeanWestTexan
The EEOC never won, and nothing ever got to the USSC. The EEOC, because of public and Congressional pressure, dropped the case in '96.

EEOC drops Hooters sex-discrimination probe

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A federal agency has ended its four-year sexual-discrimination probe of the Hooters restaurant chain that sought to force the chain to hire waiters and not just waitresses.

A spokesman for Rep. Harris Fawell, R-Illinois, chairman of a House subcommittee on employment, said Fawell received a letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) saying it had ended its investigation.

The chain did, AFAIK, settle a privately-filed lawsuit.

70 posted on 09/13/2005 7:48:07 AM PDT by TheBigB (It's Rebelbase's Fault!)
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