Overview

• The EEOC has begun notifying potential claimants that it will drop the April 2024 lawsuit claiming Sheetz’s criminal background check policy disproportionately barred Black, Native American and multiracial applicants.
• President Trump’s April executive order directs federal agencies to deprioritize disparate impact liability, effectively pausing statistics-based civil rights enforcement by the EEOC.
• Outten & Golden and the Public Interest Law Center have filed to intervene and pursue a class action on behalf of affected workers.
• Legal experts note that private litigants can still bring disparate impact claims despite the agency’s withdrawal of support.
• Sheetz denies the allegations and the case could involve thousands of current and former applicants across multiple states.