United States Fourth Circuit

The Randolph-Sheppard Act, enacted by Congress to provide employment opportunities and encourage the economic self-sufficiency of the blind, applies to the operation of military mess hall facilities.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/06/2000
• Decided 04/18/2001
• Published 04/18/2001

Judges

• Before TRAXLER and KING, Circuit Judges, and BOYLE, Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  John S. Pachter, Smith, Pachter, McWhorter & D'Ambrosio, P.L.C., Vienna, VA, for Appellants.  Jeffrica Jenkins Lee, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellees.   Cohen, et al.;  Andrew David Freeman, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, for Appellees Randolph-Sheppard, et al.   ON BRIEF:  Joseph C. Luman, Christopher Wheeler, Luman, Lange & Wheeler, for Appellants.  David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, Helen F. Fahey, United States Attorney, William Kanter, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC., for Appellees Cohen, et al.  John P. Rowley, III, Christopher P. Yukins, David S. Black, Holland & Knight, L.L.P., Falls Church, Virginia;  Peter A. Nolan, Sheinfeld, Maley & Kay, P.C., Austin, TX, for Appellees Randolph Sheppard, et al.