Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under Title VII it is clear that “a prevailing plaintiff ordinarily is to be awarded attorney’s fees in all but special circumstances”
• holding that prevailing defendants may receive attorney’s fees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 where the plaintiffs actions were “frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation”
• holding that civil-rights statute providing that court “may” award attorney‟s fees to prevailing plaintiff requires fee award “in all but special circumstances”
• holding that civil-rights statute providing that court “may” award attorney’s, fees to prevailing plaintiff requires fee award “in all but special circumstances”
• holding that unsuccessful Title VII plaintiffs need not pay their opponent’s attorney’s fees unless their action was “frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation”
• holding that fees should be awarded under employment discrimination enforcement statute if the action is “found to be unreasonable, frivolous, meritless, or vexatious”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).