United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1988(b), the grant of reasonable fees and costs to plaintiff is remanded where the defendant, a Chief Justice, failed to object to the amount requested and is represented by private counsel, so that the Attorney General has an opportunity to appear and object in the interest of the state tax payers.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/10/2003
• Published 10/10/2003

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, CARNES, Circuit Judge, and STORY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Herbert W. Titus, Chesapeake, VA, Phillip L. Jauregui, Jr., Gray & Jauregui, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Moore., Peter A. Gentala, Scottsdale, AZ, Troy R. King, Montgomery, AL, Edward Lawrence White, III, Thomas Moore Law Center, Ann Arbor, MI, Robert K. Skolrood, Scoggin & Skolrood Law Firm, Roanoke, VA, K. Hollyn Hollman, Benjamin F. Holt, Robert Benjamin Wolinsky, Washington, DC, Steven K. Green, American United, Salem, OR, James Michael Johnson, Shreveport, LA, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marc D. Stern, New York City, Ayesha N. Khan, American United, Washington, DC, William Z. Messer, Robert J. Varley, Varley & Messer, L.L.P., Morris S. Deed, Rhonda Brownstein, Danielle Jeannine Lipow, J. Richard Cohen, Southern Poverty Law Ctr., Robert Marc Weinberg, Thomas, Means & Gillis, P.C., Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.