Patton v. Andrus

OPINION AND ORDER

JUNE L. GREEN, District Judge.

This action is for an award of attorney’s fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the successful prosecution of a sex discrimination charge at the administrative level. The parties have filed cross-motions for summary judgment which raise, as the primary issue, the question of whether administrative agencies have the discretion to award fees to plaintiffs who succeed before them in discrimination suits brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.

District Court Judge Oliver Gasch of this Circuit,…