( February 20, 2026, 10:28 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission failed to persuade the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to overrule a federal judge’s denial of a proposed consent decree reached with a New York-based union and its affiliated associations that would have settled racial discrimination claims in litigation for more than 50 years; the court instead affirmed that the agreement was not “fair and reasonable.”...