State v. Whitingham School Board

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that awarding fees only to prevailing plaintiffs “encourages suits to vindicate civil rights, and penalizes those who violate the law”
• explaining that awarding fees only to prevailing plaintiffs “encourages suits to vindicate civil rights, and penalizes those who violate the law”
• statutory award of attorney’s fees to individual plaintiffs under Fair Employment Practices Act furthers this state’s policy of preventing or correcting inappropriate use of gender in employment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• In Re Appeal of Gadhue
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-12-24· cited 63×
• Bruntaeger v. Zeller
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1986-07-07· cited 61×
• State v. Black
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-01-26· cited 54×
• Gramatan Home Investors Corp. v. Starling
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1983-11-01· cited 44×
• McHugh v. University of Vermont
  D. Vermont· 1991-02-05· cited 25×
• Daniels v. Elks Club of Hartford and the Human Rights Commission
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2012-08-03· cited 15×
• Fleury v. Kessel/Duff Construction Co.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1988-02-26· cited 12×
• Depot Square Pizzeria, LLC v. Dep't of Taxes
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2017-05-19· cited 9×
• In re Phyllis McCoy Jacien, Esq.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2018-03-29· cited 3×
• In re Guardianship of Tucker
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1997-10-15· cited 1×
• United States Court of Appeals
  Second Circuit· 2025-11-12
• Cole v. Foxmar, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2025-11-12

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  Supreme Court· 1978-01-23· cited 3,039×
• Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-23· cited 2,455×
• Albright v. Fish
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1980-09-08· cited 34×
• Grenafege v. Department of Employment Security
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1976-04-06· cited 33×
• Loeb v. Loeb
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1958-09-02· cited 25×
• State v. Whitingham School Board
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1979-12-18· cited 19×
• Foster v. Department of Social Welfare
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1977-06-07· cited 2×