It’s a shame outfits like, American Center for Law and Justice, have to spend time and $$$ on this.
There are much bigger items destroying this country.
Like the current regime occupying the White House.
I am going to guess that the settlement included payment of the plaintiffs’ legal fees and costs. That is, on top of the 50K. It just wasn’t mentioned in the article, but payment of fees and costs is part of civil rights statute they sued under.