United States Fourth Circuit

The Equal Access to Justice Act does not contain the unequivocal expression of congressional intent to waive sovereign immunity to authorize the assessment of an award of attorneys fees against the United States in a habeas corpus proceeding.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2005
• Published 01/27/2005

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and Norman K. MOON, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Matthew Theodore Martens, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellant.  William Chester Bunting, Jr., Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Gretchen C.F. Shappert, United States Attorney, Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Peter C. Anderson, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, L.L.P., Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee.