CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. EEOC
CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. EEOC | |
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Argued March 28, 2016 Decided May 19, 2016 | |
Full case name | CRST Van Expedited, Inc., Petitioner v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
Docket no. | 14-1375 |
Citations | 578 U.S. ___ (more) 136 S. Ct. 1642; 194 L. Ed. 2d 707 |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Kennedy, joined by unanimous |
Concurrence | Thomas |
CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 578 U.S. ___ (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding whether a prevailing party must succeed on the merits to seek attorney's fees. In a unanimous decision authored by Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Court held that a defendant need not succeed on the merits in order to be the prevailing party for the purposes of seeking attorney fees.[1]
Following the Supreme Court's decision in CRST's favor, the matter was remanded to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and back to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa for further proceedings. In December 2017, the District Court ordered the EEOC to pay CRST $3,317,289.67 in attorney fees.[2],[3] The EEOC appealed this order to the Eighth Circuit. The Eighth Circuit affirmed the fee award to CRST, which the EEOC paid in 2020.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. EEOC, Slip opinion" (PDF). May 19, 2016. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
- ^ "NextGen | Northern District of Iowa-Confirm Request". ecf.iand.uscourts.gov. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
- ^ "NextGen | Northern District of Iowa-Confirm Request". ecf.iand.uscourts.gov. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
- ^ "NextGen | Northern District of Iowa-Confirm Request". ecf.iand.uscourts.gov. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
External links
[edit]- Text of CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. EEOC, 578 U.S. ___ (2016) is available from: Google Scholar Justia Oyez (oral argument audio) Supreme Court (slip opinion) (archived)