McCann v. Trustees, Dodson School District

The District Court for the Seventeenth Judicial District, Phillips County, granted summary judgment for the Trustees of Dodson School District (school district) in this action for attorney fees pursuant to § 49-2-505(4), MCA. Lama J. McCann appeals. We reverse.

The issue is whether the District Court abused its discretion in awarding attorney fees to the school district as the prevailing defendant in the underlying discrimination case filed under the Montana Human Rights Act.

The school district brought this action in District Court to recover from Lama J. McCann (McCann) its attorney fees…