Legal Opinion
Scallet v. Rosenblum
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided October 31, 1997No. Civ. A. No. 94-00016-CPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHAEL, Jr., Senior District Judge.
AMENDED MEMORANDUM OPINION
Defendants have filed a motion for attorney’s fees pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(d) and Fourth Circuit Rule 39(c).
The allowance of certain costs in litigation is both an historic and a statutory animal. The taxation of costs for the prevailing party “is part of the historic equity jurisdiction of the federal courts. The suits ‘in equity’ of which these courts were given ‘cognizance’ ever since the First Judiciary Act, 1 Stat. 73, constituted that body of remedies, procedures and practices which theretofore had been evolved in the…
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