Ashmeade v. Amazon.com
- Kenneth Karas
- 7:23-cv-04331
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
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In Ashmeade v. Amazon.com, Judge Karas ordered Amazon to respond to Ashmeade’s motion seeking EEOC documents and record supplementation; the court did not decide the motion.
Keith Ashmeade and the Amazon defendants; the order required Amazon to respond to Ashmeade’s motion but did not resolve it.
What happened
In Ashmeade v. Amazon.com, Keith Ashmeade, representing himself, asked the court to require Amazon to provide documents it submitted to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and to add those documents to the case record. He said the materials contradicted Amazon’s court filings and supported his retaliation and workplace-safety allegations.
Ashmeade also asked the court to consider whether Amazon made inaccurate or bad-faith statements, and to take notice of alleged inconsistencies in Amazon’s EEOC and court submissions. The opinion does not decide whether those allegations are true or whether the documents should be added to the record.
Judge Kenneth Karas ordered Amazon to respond to the motion by July 24, 2025. The order did not grant or deny the motion itself.
The detailed version
- Ashmeade v. Amazon.com · No. 7:23-cv-04331
- Kenneth Karas
- July 17, 2025
Background
Keith Ashmeade, appearing without a lawyer, filed a motion asking the court to supplement the record and order Amazon.com, Amazon.com Services LLC, and Amazon.com, Inc. to provide materials submitted to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The requested materials included Amazon’s position statement responding to Charge No. 4903-4830-7790 and Exhibits A through U associated with internal tracking number 4916-6983-8416.
Ashmeade said the EEOC materials were relevant to Amazon’s pending motion to dismiss. He alleged that the materials showed contradictions, admissions, and false statements concerning retaliation, workplace-safety complaints, and statements about his conduct. He also asserted that Amazon had represented that no EEOC complaint had been filed or received, while its EEOC submission showed that Amazon had responded to such a charge.
Requested relief
Ashmeade asked the court to direct Amazon to produce the EEOC materials, permit him to add them to the case record to respond to Amazon’s motion to dismiss, take judicial notice of alleged inconsistencies between Amazon’s EEOC and court submissions, and assess whether Amazon violated Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b) or acted in bad faith.
Court’s action
The court did not rule on whether the EEOC materials must be produced or added to the record, whether Amazon violated Rule 11(b), or whether Ashmeade’s allegations have merit. Judge Kenneth Karas ordered Amazon to respond to the motion by July 24, 2025. The opinion text includes filing-date references that are not fully consistent, but the supplied case information identifies July 17, 2025 as the filing date.
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