The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed only 95 lawsuits in the fiscal year that ended in September, down from 114 a year ago. But 2023 just might be the year that the agency ratchets up its activity in a big way, according to Seyfarth Shaw’s newly released “EEOC-Initiated Litigation: 2023 Edition.”

The five-person commission is poised to gain a Democratic majority this year, and the agency also has at its disposal a budget of $465 million, a whopping $60 million increase.

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