Legal Opinion
DeGaetano v. Smith Barney, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 5, 1997No. 95 CIV. 1613(DLC)PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and ORDER
COTE, District Judge.
Plaintiff Alicia DeGaetano (“DeGaetano”) moves to modify or correct an arbitration award rendered in her favor in an employment discrimination case, seeking specifically to collect attorney’s fees that she was denied in that award. DeGaetano contends that because she received an award of $90,355 in the arbitration, thereby attaining “prevailing plaintiff” status, the arbitrator’s failure to grant her attorney’s fees constituted a manifest disregard of the law under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. For the…
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