U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell of the District of Columbia on Tuesday granted a government motion for clarification regarding her permanent injunction against President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting Perkins Coie, making it clear that her ruling earlier this month does not bar the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from continuing to probe hiring practices across the legal industry.
The motion for clarification, filed on the docket just under three weeks after the judge granted summary judgment to Perkins Coie, asked the court to limit the injunction against the government’s executive order strictly to Perkins Coie, especially as it applies to Section 4 of the EO directing the EEOC to review “large, influential, or industry leading” law firms’ hiring practices for Title VII violations.