Legal Opinion
Paul Quintana v. Kenneth Jenne
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 28, 2005No. 03-15443PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
The question in this appeal is whether the district court properly awarded attorney’s fees to a prevailing defendant, even though the plaintiff, Paul Quintana, who alleged racial discrimination and retaliation. in employment, established a prima facie case on one of his two claims for relief. Because the presentation of a pri-ma facie case in response to a motion for summary judgment means that a claim necessarily cannot then be considered frivolous, we conclude that the district court abused its discretion by awarding fees for the defense against the claim that was not…
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