William Howe v. City of Akron

The “remarkable vigor and venom” of this litigation, Howe v. City of Akron, 801 F.3d 718, 724 (6th Cir. 2015), has not ceased since we last visited it nearly two years ago. In its latest iteration, Plaintiffs, a group of Akron firefighters who prevailed at trial on the issues of age and race discrimination, dispute the district court’s award of attorney fees. The award of attorney fees is largely at the discretion of district courts, and the district court in this case did not abuse that discretion. Accordingly, we AFFIRM the district court’s judgment.

I. BACKGROUND

In the underlying case,…