United States Ninth Circuit

The award of attorneys' fees to defendant under the Equal Access to Justice Act is reversed where the district court improperly held that the government was not "substantially justified" in defending the Child Pornography Prevention Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/13/2005
• Decided 05/23/2005
• Published 05/23/2005

Judges

• MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:, Before:  LAY,B. FLETCHER, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• H. Louis Sirkin, Sirkin Pinales & Schwartz, Cincinnati, OH, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles W. Scarborough, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.