Opinion ID: 5539
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Heading: olson's attorney's fees.

Text: 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(k) allows the district court to grant the prevailing party in a Title VII action to recover reasonable attorney's fees. Because we render judgment for the EEOC on liability, it is the EEOC who prevails and not Olson's. Notwithstanding that, we are compelled to express our puzzlement at how the district court could look at this record and find that the EEOC's complaint was frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation, Christiansburg Garment Co. v. EEOC, 434 U.S. 412, 421, 98 S. Ct. 694, 700 (1978), particularly in light of the district court's denial of Olson's two pre-trial motions for summary judgment and of Olson's Rule 41(b) motion for dismissal, which was offered at the close of the EEOC's case-in-chief.