An Iowa trucking company will have another chance to win $4.5 in attorney’s fees from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously vacated a lower court’s decision to throw out the attorney’s fees EEOC had been ordered to pay CRST Van Expedited Inc. and remanded the case back to the lower court.
The case stems from the class-action lawsuit the EEOC brought against CRST Van Expedited Inc. on behalf of female employees, who claimed to have been sexually harassed or sexually assaulted while on the job.
The district court dismissed the case on the grounds that EEOC had not adequately investigated or attempted to reconcile its claims and later awarded it $4.5 million in attorney’s fees as the “prevailing party.”
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http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/280532-justices-back-trucking-company-after-attorneys-fees-from-eeoc
