Student in sexual harassment trial gets $1; lawyers awarded $305K in fees

[TexasTowelie]

MINNEAPOLIS — A University of Minnesota graduate student who accused a colleague of sexual harassment was awarded just $1 in March, but her lawyers will get much more than that.

U.S. District Judge John Tunheim last week ordered U.S. Fish and Wildlife scientist Ted Swem to pay $305,000 in fees to Stephanie Jenkins' attorneys.

Jenkins was 29 when she spent four weeks in 2011 studying falcons in remote Alaska with Swem, then 59. She said he took a photo of her backside, told dirty jokes and made repeated and unwelcome requests for a physical relationship.

Jenkins quit school the next year and abandoned her career plans.

Read more: http://www.inforum.com/news/4347013-student-sexual-harassment-trial-gets-1-lawyers-awarded-305k-fees

[MichMan]

1. Lawyers will likely demand their half of the $1