Time To Pay Up! EEOC Ordered To Pay $4.694 Million In Fees And Costs For Pursuing “Unreasonable” And “Groundless” Claims

In a highly anticipated decision issued yesterday in one of the EEOC’s most high profile cases, Chief Judge Linda R. Reade of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa ordered the EEOC to pay $4,694,442.14 in attorneys’ fees, expenses, and costs in the case of EEOC v. CRST Van Expedited, Inc., Case No. 07-CV-95, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 107822 (N.D. Iowa Aug. 1, 2013). As we blogged in the past about this litigation, the District Court previously entered a fee award against the EEOC in 2010 totaling $4,560.281.11, however, this award was reversed without prejudice by the U. S. Court of Appeal for the Eighth Circuit, which remanded the case back to the District Court. See EEOC v. CRST Van Expedited, Inc., 679 F.3d 657 (8th Cir. 2012).

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