My personal favorite search strings:
Search strings on EEOC database, to find a winning discrimination case.
The agency implemented the following order:
after reviewing the previous decision
Complainant timely requested reconsideration of the decision
POSTING ORDER (G0900)
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMMISSION’S DECISION (K0408)
Pay complainant $
equitable relief
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EEOC recommended search strings:
Search Tips
Look for a phrase
Example – type sexual harassment to find the exact phrase sexual harassment. Since the search is not case-sensitive, this is equivalent to Sexual Harassment.
Look for two or more words at once by using the AND operator.
Example – type sex AND harassment to find documents that have both the word sex and the word harassment anywhere.
Look for words that are close to each other by using the NEAR
operator instead of the AND operator. When you use NEAR, the closer
together the words are, the higher the rank of the page, so the higher
it appears in the list of search results.
Example – type sex NEAR harassment to match documents where the word sex is within 50 words of the word harassment.
Look for synonyms or similar words by using the OR operator.
Note that if you don’t use the OR operator and search using multiple
words, the words are treated as a phrase.
Example – type race OR ethnicity to find the word race or the word ethnicity, but not necessarily both.
Limit your search by using the AND NOT operator to exclude words.
Example – type harassment AND NOT sexual to find all instances of harassment, as long as sexual does not also appear.
Use double quotes if you want to use AND, OR, NOT, or NEAR literally.
Example – type “race and ethnicity” to find documents with the phrase race and ethnicity. Without the double quotes, this query would use the NEAR operator instead of the phrase.
Use a single asterisk (*) to look for words that begin with the same letters.
Example – type rac* to find race, racial, racist, and so on.
Use a double asterisk (**) to look for all forms of a word.
Example – type fly** to match fly, flew, flown, and flying.
If you are unable to find a very recent decision, please try again at a later date.
