Court Opinion

ID: 9472682
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:07:16.532866+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:43:04.267866
License: Public Domain

GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the result set forth in the en banc majority opinion and in the opinion to *1239the extent that it relies on the following two reasons: 1) this Court remanded this ease to the District Court in Shimman v. Frank, 625 F.2d 80 (6th Cir.1980) (after modifying and affirming the District Court judgment) specifically ordering “each side will bear its own costs.” There is no justification in this record for the District Court faced with this instruction to order Defendants to pay Plaintiffs attorney’s fees. 2) The award of attorney’s fees in this case is also barred by Alyeska Pipeline Services Co. v. Wilderness Society, 421 U.S. 240, 95 S.Ct. 1612, 44 L.Ed.2d 141 (1975), since Plaintiffs fee claims do not fit within any of the exceptions to the American Rule recognized in Alyeska.