In the court of law, the women lost the bulk of their case on summary judgment, a decision that surprised the media but was less of a surprise to lawyers who actually examined the case and sought alternative remedies for the team. Such claims were not subject to cross-examination. Few people critically examined the half-truths and outright distortions of arguments in which players making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year were portrayed as paupers who couldn’t afford child care. The fuzzy math and torturous logic of their legal team’s filings meant little when weighed against an unsympathetic US Soccer Federation, whose own lawyers drastically misstepped with a filing that claimed women have less “ability” than men, a move that precipitated the resignation of tone-deaf federation president Carlos Cordeiro. In the court of public opinion, the women did quite well. What’s mentioned a bit less frequently is one little detail: The women’s legal team’s filing includes plenty of self-aggrandizement about the landmark settlement and the collective bargaining agreement that followed, the latter of which was a multiparty conversation that would be at best tangentially related to the lawyers’ aggressive posture. Thanks to a filing by the US women’s legal team, we can now quantify at least part of that cost: “(T)he Court should award Plaintiffs’ counsel $6.6 million in attorneys’ fees and approve reimbursement of $1,369,127 ($1,319,127 plus $50,000) in expenses.”Īccording to that filing, the women who stand to collect that settlement are fine with that money – with the exception of Hope Solo, who has not settled a separate lawsuit against US Soccer and has pounced on those legal fees in an effort to block the settlement with her former teammates.
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