Davis v. Precoat Metals
United States District Court of the Northern District of Illinois
2002 WL 1759828 (N.D. Ill. 2002)
Davis and other employees (plaintiffs) sued Precoat Metals (defendant) alleging a racially hostile work environment and moved to compel discovery of other employees' race and national origin discrimination complaints, limiting their request to a four-year period, employees at the same Chicago plant, and the same types of discrimination alleged in their complaint; Precoat argued the requests were overbroad.
Whether a plaintiff alleging racial discrimination and hostile work environment is entitled to discovery of complaints by other employees, if the requests seek discoverable information and are narrowly tailored to the specific claims of the case.