In a closely watched case brought by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against the international law firm of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, the US Supreme Court has issued a written order denying Sidley's petition for high court review of the EEOC's ability to pursue monetary damages and other individual victim-specific relief in EEOC's ongoing age discrimination suit against the firm (EEOC v Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Dkt No 05-1481). The October 2, 2006 decision by the Court to deny Sidley's request for review means that the question of the EEOC's ability to seek such relief will continue to be governed by the February 17, 2006, decision of the US Court of Appeals for Seventh Circuit on the issue. In that decision, the Seventh Circuit confirmed the EEOC's authority to seek individual relief such as money and reinstatement for partners who were downgraded from partner status by the firm in 1999 and others forced out because of an age-based retirement policy (87 EPD 42,265)....