Victory At Last: Fourth Circuit Orders EEOC To Pay Up On Hefty Attorneys’ Fees Award

This week the Fourth Circuit put its foot down on a decision almost eleven years in the making, ordering the government to pay Propack Logistics $189,113.50 in attorneys’ fees.  This welcome news brings the EEOC’s long battle in EEOC v. Propak Logistics Inc., Case No. 13-CV-1687 (4th Cir. 2014) to an end. 

After the EEOC took a stunning eight years to investigate a charge of discrimination, the Commission finally filed suit in 2009, which the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina subsequently dismissed in August 2012.  Ever since, the EEOC and Propak have battled over attorneys’ fees and costs.  After all is said and done, Propak came out on top yet again:  defeating both the EEOC’s discrimination claims and securing hefty attorneys’ fees.

 

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