The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit slapped the U.S. Department of Labor’s proverbial hand in a recent ruling, calling the DOL’s behavior vindictive and baseless, which caught the attention of Martha Neil of the American Bar Association Journal.
In the opinion, which requires the DOL to pay approximately $500,000 in attorney fees to a defendant company, the judges chastised the government for failing to acknowledge mistakes and for defending “the indefensible in an indefensible manner.”
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