Ferman v. Sturgis Cleaners, Inc.

**488 *1197 This case requires us to consider whether employees, whose claim against their employer under the Wage Act, **489 G. L. c. 149, §§ 148, 150, resulted in a favorable settlement agreement and stipulation of dismissal, "prevailed" in their suit for purposes of an award of attorney's fees and costs under the Wage Act's fee-shifting provisions. 3 The defendants contend that the trial judge should have applied the test for determining prevailing party status under Federal fee-shifting statutes established by Buckhannon Bd. & Care Home, Inc . v. West Virginia Dep't of Health & Human Resources…