United States Fourth Circuit

A claim for legal costs based on a contractual provision, that is not limited to expenses incurred during the underlying litigation, is an element of damages to be proved at trial under the substantive law governing the action.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/25/2005
• Decided 07/20/2005
• Published 07/20/2005

Judges

• Before WIDENER, WILKINSON, and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Robert Allen Long, Jr., Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Randall Maitland Roden, Tharrington, Smith, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Mark A. Ash, J. Mitchell Armbruster, Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina;  Emily J. Henn, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Daniel W. Clark, Kristopher B. Gardner, Tharrington, Smith, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.