Court Awards Over $140,000 In Defense Fees For The EEOC's Pursuit Of Frivolous Lawsuit

On the heels of its early 2011 decision imposing fee sanctions against the EEOC for continuing to litigate a case after it should have known it could not prove its claims, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico in EEOC v. TriCore Reference Laboratories, Case No. 09-CV-956 (D. N.Mex. Oct. 27, 2011), issued an order setting reasonable attorneys’ fees in the amount of $140,571.62 against the EEOC. This fee award joins a growing line of cases reflecting judicial intolerance for hard-line litigation tactics by the EEOC (see here and here).

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