June 9th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

Federal authorities moved Friday to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to halt the use of a key tool for the EEOC’s interpretation of the country’s civil rights laws.  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the top federal agency for enforcing workers’ rights, filed a motion in a Pennsylvania federal court to dismiss the Sheetz lawsuit, citing Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to deprioritize the use of “disparate impact liability” in civil rights enforcement.