Credit Discrimination: 11.8.6.1 General Standards
All of the federal discrimination and civil rights laws provide for attorney fees for prevailing plaintiffs. Although the language of the various statutes’ attorney fee provisions differ somewhat in that some refer to prevailing plaintiffs and some refer to plaintiffs in a successful action, all apply the same set of standards for determining awards of reasonable attorney fees and costs to plaintiffs. Some also allow awards to successful defendants, but under a much stricter standard, and some do not even authorize such awards.