Porter v. United States Agency for International Development

MEMORANDUM ORDER

ROBERTSON, District Judge.

After a jury awarded him compensatory damages for retaliation in his employment discrimination action against USAID, Mel vin Porter filed a petition for equitable relief. He included a request for attorneys’ fees in that petition and asked that I “gross up” the fee award to cover any tax liability a fee award might entail. I declined to rule on the attorneys’ fee request while considering Porter’s prayer for retroactive promotion, back pay, and injunc-tive relief, and I declined to decide the tax “gross up” question, finding the issue not then ripe…