EEOC Drops Penn Subpoena for Jewish Employee Names After Judge Ordered Records
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Updated · NBC Philadelphia · Jul 23
EEOC Drops Penn Subpoena for Jewish Employee Names After Judge Ordered Records
2 articles · Updated · NBC Philadelphia · Jul 23
Summary
July 23 court filings show the EEOC moved to dismiss its subpoena seeking the University of Pennsylvania’s list of Jewish employees, reversing a demand at the center of a long-running antisemitism probe.
Tuesday’s ruling had ordered Penn to turn over employee records to investigators but said the university did not have to disclose any worker’s affiliation with a specific group.
The EEOC has argued such identities can help investigators reach possible victims or witnesses in workplace-discrimination cases, and in a November filing said Penn’s workplace was “replete with antisemitism.”
The investigation stems from incidents including antisemitic slurs and vandalism at a Jewish student center, a swastika painted on an academic building and hateful graffiti tied to tensions over Gaza war protests.