The Western District Court recently awarded attorney’s fees and costs of court in the Johnson v. Southwest Research Institute, No. 15-CV-297, matter. I previously wrote about that trial here and here. The judge awarded $535,609 in attorney’s fees and costs of the lawsuit. Included in that attorney fee figure are attorney fees ranging from
In a recent decision, the Fifth Circuit reversed the award of attorney fees to a prevailing plaintiff. In Cervantes v. Cotter, the lower court severely reduced the plaintiff’s fee request by some 75% because the plaintiff’s success was, in the view of the trial court, small. The plaintiffs, noted the trial court, were only
Faith Gonzales worked at a Bill Miller barbecue restaurant. As any San Antonian would know, Bill Miller’s is a fast-food version of barbecue and is a local institution. She complained about discriminatory conduct and was fired in 2008. She filed her charge with the EEOC. The matter did not go to trial until January, 2013.
I first wrote about this case a couple of years ago. See my prior post about EEOC v. CRST Van Expedited, Inc. It struck me as a good case, but the court parsed the evidence to make it seem like a weak case. Too, the court rejected the view that certain “lead” drivers could constitute
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Yes, a plaintiff in an employment lawsuit can be hit with an award of attorney’s fees. In federal court, the losing party is almost always ordered to pay the other side’s court costs. And, yes, if the plaintiff is found to have filed a "frivolous" lawsuit, then
I have written before on the costs of litigating a discrimination lawsuit. Connecticut Employment Law blog reports about a case in which the employee obtained as part of her settlement $16,000 in lost pay and $130,000 in attorney’s fees. Note how much higher are the attorney’s fees of the employee’s lawyer. $130,000 means the lawyer