Three large trade groups representing millions of the country’s businesses and employers entered the appellate fray last Thursday with their filing of an amicus brief before the Sixth Circuit in EEOC v. Peoplemark, Inc. As we previously reported here andhere, EEOC v. Peoplemark stems from a Michigan district court’s underlying decision to award approximately $750,000 in attorneys' fees and costs against the EEOC, as a result of the agency’s failed discrimination suit against defendant Peoplemark, Inc. The trade groups’ amicus submission adds to the growing chorus of voices expressing growing intolerance for the EEOC's overly zealous enforcement tactics in large-scale pattern or practice cases.