Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Help At Home, Inc.

Filing 41

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER:IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff EEOCs request for attorneys fees 39 is GRANTED. Plaintiff shall receive attorneys fees in the total amount of $261.60 from Defendant Help at Home. Signed by District Judge John A. Ross on 5/20/2013. (RAK)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI
EASTERN DIVISION

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
COMMISSION,
Plaintiff,
v.
KARI MCCONNELL, SHANNON
SCHROETER & JACLYN STONE,
Plaintiff/Intervenors,
v.
HELP AT HOME, INC.,
Defendant.

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No. 4:12-CV-1498-JAR

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
The Court is in receipt of Plaintiff EEOC’s documentation in support of its request for
attorney’s fees and costs associated with its Motion to Compel submitted pursuant to the Court’s
May 3, 2013 Order. [ECF No. 39] Plaintiff EEOC’s request is supported by the affidavit of its
attorney of record, Barbara A. Seely. (Doc. No. 39-1) Defendant has neither contested the
amount of attorney’s fees requested by Plaintiff EEOC nor requested a hearing thereon.
In her affidavit, Seely states she spent a total of four hours researching, drafting and filing
Plaintiff EEOC’s Motion to Compel Supplementation of Initial Disclosures and Discovery and is
paid at the rate of $65.40 per hour. Seely further states the EEOC incurred no expenses in
connection with filing its motion to compel. The Court finds the time claimed for attorney’s fees

is appropriate and reasonable and will award Plaintiff EEOC its attorney’s fees in the amount of
$261.60.
Accordingly,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff EEOC’s request for attorney’s fees [39] is
GRANTED. Plaintiff shall receive attorney’s fees in the total amount of $261.60 from
Defendant Help at Home.

JOHN A. ROSS
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Dated this 20th day of May, 2013.

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