Civil Rights – Contract – Race Discrimination – § 1981 Claim – Attorney’s Fees

By Deborah Elkins
Published: October 6, 2008

An Alexandria U.S. District Court awards $1,822,743 in attorney’s fees to a minority-owned telecommunications service provider who worked as a subcontractor to defendant Dyncorp in Iraq and Afghanistan and who won $15,202,681 in compensatory and punitive damages in a suit alleging that Dyncorp violated 42 U.S.C. § 1981 prohibiting race discrimination in contracting, for actions ...

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