United States Fourth Circuit

The "common-benefit" doctrine does not entitle plaintiffs who successfully argued that the Subtitle C of the Violence Against Women Act, 42 USC 13981, was unconstitutional to attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 USC 2412(b).

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2001
• Published 12/04/2001

Judges

• Before WIDENER, LUTTIG, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Hans Frank Bader, Center For Individual Rights, Washington, DC, for Appellants.  Michael Eugene Robinson, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Michael E. Rosman, Center for Individual Rights, Washington, DC;  W. David Paxton, Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, Roanoke, VA;  Joseph Graham Painter, Jr., Joseph Graham Painter, Jr., P.C., Blacksburg, VA, for Appellants.  Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Robert P. Crouch, Jr., United States Attorney, Michael Jay Singer, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee.