Providence Journal Company v. Mason

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• noting that legislature had expressly provided-for awarding of attorneys’ fees in some cases and that it could but had not done so under the state’s Fair Employment Practices Act, so that trial court correctly reversed commission’s fees award
• where legislature explicitly provided for fee award in some situations but not in others, it is not for the courts to award attorneys’ fees in the latter situation

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