Court Opinion

ID: 6931660
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 00:05:19.096021+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:07:12.892080
License: Public Domain

RESTANI, Judge,
concurring:
I join in parts I, II, & III of the opinion and concur in part IV as S-1 & S-2 v. State Bd. of Educ., 21 F.3d 49 (4th Cir.1994) (en banc), controls. I cannot agree, however, that Farrar v. Hobby, — U.S. -, 113 S.Ct. 566, 121 L.Ed.2d 494 (1992), applies to a catalyst doctrine case. If this were an open question, I would take the position of the dissent in the en banc decision in S-l, for the reasons stated therein. 21 F.3d at 51; see also Baumgartner v. Harrisburg Hous. Auth., 21 F.3d 541, 546 (3d Cir.1994) (“The issue in Farrar ... did not concern the ‘catalyst theory.’”).