GE Betz, Inc. v. Michelle Moffitt-Johnston

PRISCILLA R. OWEN, Circuit Judge:

GE Betz, doing business as GE Water and Process Technologies (GE), appeals from the district court's partial grant of summary judgment and award of attorneys' fees in favor of its former employee Michelle Moffitt-Johnston and AmSpec Services, L.L.C. (AmSpec). We affirm the district court's judgment in part but vacate the award of attorneys' fees.

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In 2009, after over a decade working for GE and its predecessor, Moffitt-Johnston became the first head of GE's distressed fuels team, which performs "cargo treatments" for other companies. The cargo treatment process…