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BLAIR v. SHENANDOAH WOMEN'S CENTER, INC.

No. 84-1130.

757 F.2d 1435 (1985)

Walter Lloyd BLAIR, Appellant, v. SHENANDOAH WOMEN'S CENTER, INC.; Barbara Kukla; Janis Christopher; Berkeley County Board of Education; Martinsburg City Police Department; Officer Danny Lyons; Officer John Doe No. 1; Officer John Doe No. 2; Debbie Stubberfield; Miss Melissa Butts; Ms. Dana "Doe"; United Way and The State of West Virginia, Appellees. In re Gene D. BENNETT, Michael D. Bennett, Genele D. Bennett, Next Best Friend, Gene D. Bennett, Plaintiffs, v. SHENANDOAH WOMEN'S CENTER, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 7, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Walinsky, Falls Church, Va. (Robert W. Goodson; William J. Carter; Carr, Goodson & Lee, P.C., Washington, D.C., John F. Brown, Jr.; Brown, Harner & Busch, L.C., Elkins, W.Va., on brief), for appellant.

William T. Wertman, Jr., Martinsburg, W.Va. (WV Legal Services Plan, Inc.; Charles F. Printz, Jr.; J. Oakley Seibert; April L. Dowler, Martinsburg, W.Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges.

HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

The district court required Walter Lloyd Blair, Esq., and his client, Gene D. Bennett, to pay defendants' attorneys' fees for bringing and pressing a frivolous and scandalous suit. Blair alone appeals, and we affirm.

I.

Bennett's lawsuit followed within two months after his wife sought shelter from his abuse at Shenandoah Women's Center, Inc. (Shenandoah). Blair filed the...

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