Costa v. Sears Home Improvement Products, Inc.

DECISION AND ORDER

ELIZABETH A. WOLFORD, United States District Judge

This case involved a hotly-contested dispute as to whether the plaintiff, Christina Costa, was unlawfully retaliated against by her former employer in violation of Title VII. After discovery and dispositive motion practice, a jury trial commenced in October 2015. Before the jury rendered a final verdict, the parties resolved the underlying substantive aspect of Plaintiffs claim, but as in many of these cases, the sticking point with the settlement was the amount of attorneys’ fees and costs that should be paid to Plaintiffs…