Court Opinion

ID: 9477251
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 06:18:20.257038+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:45:46.577775
License: Public Domain

GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge,
concurring specially in Circuit Judge MILBURN’s dissent.
In my view of this case the majority opinion simply amends the statute to provide a time limitation not adopted by Congress and not justified in equity. Here defendant Plain Dealer had received notice to “preserve all personnel records relevant to the charge or action until final disposition of the charge or action.” Thus the Plain Dealer Publishing Company clearly had notice of the pending claim but in spite thereof proceeded to destroy essential records. Since in this case we sit in equity *1164we should not permit a defendant who refused to produce records voluntarily or comply with an EEOC subpoena to prevail.