The number of votes by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission increased drastically after the addition of Democratic Commissioner Kalpana Kotagal in August, signaling the civil rights agency is gearing up for a busy year of litigation and rulemaking.
From August through October, following Kotagal’s swearing in, the five-member panel has had over twice as many votes as in the three months leading up to her arrival, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis. The EEOC votes on issuing regulations and guidance, launching discrimination lawsuits, and filing friend-of-the-court briefs in cases it views as raising novel or important issues.
Kotagal’s swearing in ...