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- Title: Martinez V. City Of Tacoma
- Author : Division Two Court of Appeals of Washington
- Release Date : January 12, 1996
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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WIGGINS, J.*fn* -- We must decide whether the trial court abused its discretion by limiting the successful plaintiff's attorney fee award in an employment discrimination action to the contingent fee agreement percentage of the damages found by the jury. The trial court limited the attorney fee award to fifty percent of the $8000 damages found by the jury, for a total fee of $4000. We hold that the trial court's heavy reliance on the contingent fee percentage contravenes the purposes of the fee award authorized by Washington's Law Against Discrimination. The trial court abused its discretion in setting the plaintiff's attorney fee award in this manner, and we reverse and remand for a redetermination of a reasonable attorney fee and costs.