finding attorney’s fees incident to administrative proceedings may be awarded under Title VII because, unlike the term “suit” in Section 8 of the Interstate Commerce Act, the term “proceedings” includes administrative proceedings
How later courts described this case
- finding attorney’s fees incident to administrative proceedings may be awarded under Title VII because, unlike the term “suit” in Section 8 of the Interstate Commerce Act, the term “proceedings” includes administrative proceedings
- losing civil rights defendant need not pay double hourly rates for frequent overlapping of time and unexplained, excessive time spent on conferences between senior and junior attorneys
- invoking “the familiar principle that statutory language should be construed so as to avoid redundancy”
- noting the “familiar principle that statutory language should be construed so as to avoid redundancy”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
ROBB, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the result, that the administrative phases of federal employment discrimination controversies, as distinguished from such cases in the private sector, are proceedings for which attorneys’ fees are recoverable by the prevailing party.