( October 8, 2025, 4:14 PM EDT) -- PORTLAND, Ore. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 7 reduced by around $200,000 an award for attorney fees given to a police officer who sued Vancouver, Wash., for sex discrimination and retaliation after finding that a district court, though it properly reduced the award for the officer’s limited success at trial, was wrong to include work done on an unrelated case and erred in granting a request for a contingency award....