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SONII v. GENERAL ELEC. CO.

No. 03-2818.

359 F.3d 448 (2004)

Abraham V. SONII and Rufus Jones, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 13, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig G. Penrose (argued), Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Hal N. Bogard (argued), General Electric Company, Mitzi D. Wyrick, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Louisville, KY, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before EASTERBROOK, DIANE P. WOOD, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

This employment-discrimination case was settled in October 2000, at a time when it was widely believed that settlement made the plaintiff a "prevailing party" entitled to attorneys' fees. Seven months later, Buckhannon Board & Care Home, Inc. v. West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources, 532 U.S. 598, 121 S.Ct. 1835, 149 L.Ed.2d 855 (2001), disapproved the view that a plaintiff ...

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