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Julia M. O'rourke, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. City of Providence, Defendant, Appellant, 235 F.3d 713 (1st Cir. 2001)
Two different juries have now found the Providence Fire Department liable under Title VII to one of its first women firefighters, Julia O'Rourke, for that form of sex discrimination known as sexual harassment. O'Rourke asks us to reinstate the first verdict for $275,000. The City defends the trial court's decision to vacate that verdict and order a new trial but complains that the second verdict, for $200,000, based on evidence over a shorter period of time, is unsound.
We conclude that the trial court erred when it vacated the first verdict on the grounds that evidence from before the charge period had been erroneously admitted. The evidence was properly admitted to prove a continuing violation and it would have been error to exclude it. We reinstate the original verdict and remand for recalculation of the attorneys' fees due plaintiff for the two trials. In partic
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O'ROURKE v. City of Providence, 77 F. Supp. 2d 258 (D.R.I. 1999)
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CITY OF PROVIDENCE; R. Michael Dimascolo; Manuel Costa; Alfred Bertoncini; and David Cionfolo, Defendants.
United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.
*259*260 Gerald C. DeMaria, Higgins, Cavanagh & Cooney, Providence, RI, Patricia E. Andrews, Providence, RI, for plaintiff.
Kevin F. McHugh, City of Providence Law Department, Providence, RI, Edward C. Roy, Jr., Roy & Cook, Providence, RI, for defendants.
DECISION AND ORDER
LAGUEUX, Chief Judge.
This matter is before the Court on plaintiff's motion for attorneys' fees and costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(k). Plaintiff requests $221,285 in attorneys' fees and $26,696.18 in costs for the two trials held in this case. Defendant objects on various grounds to portions of the motion and, thus, requests a reduction in the award of