A federal magistrate judge has blasted the Atlanta office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying it abused its authority by pursuing a baseless claim against a small business that has spent more than $100,000 defending itself.
“The federal courts stand as a bulwark to protect this nation’s citizens from powerful government agencies that seek to run roughshod over their rights,” wrote Judge Walter Johnson of the U.S. District Court in Atlanta. His Sept. 30 order refused to enforce an EEOC subpoena seeking thousands of employment documents from a Griffin home nurse provider.
