A federal judge has awarded a metro Atlanta attorney more than $400,000 in legal fees for securing a $75,000 judgment in a disability discrimination suit the attorney said could have been settled if the defendant, Georgia State University, had not insisted on going to trial.
“We tried to settle the case very early,” said attorney James Radford, who sued the Atlanta college after it ousted a student who revealed he was schizophrenic from university housing. Radford said if university officials had simply allowed his client—identified in court papers only by the initials “R.W.”—to continue living in his dorm, “They probably would have walked away from it without any legal fees.”
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