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PARKER v. METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DIST.

No. 91 C 2834.

782 F.Supp. 387 (1992)

Dennis PARKER, Plaintiff, v. METROPOLITAN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT OF GREATER CHICAGO, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

January 9, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Orman, Jeffrey Wayne Finke, Hartman & Finke, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Antoni E. Wesolowski, Metropolitan Sanitary Dist. of Greater Chicago, Helen S. Wright, James B. Murray, Metro. Water Reclamation Dist. of Greater Chicago, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff seeks attorneys' fees as the prevailing party following settlement, by reinstatement, of his discriminatory discharge claim. Defendant does not seriously contest that plaintiff is the prevailing party for the fee-shifting purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1988. It claims, however, that the release language is sufficiently broad to encompass a waiver of fees or at least creates an ambiguity, and that its counsel...

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