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CHERRY v. CHAMPION INTERN. CORP.

No. 98-1618.

186 F.3d 442 (1999)

Nancy C. CHERRY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant. Equal Employment Advisory Council, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: July 27, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David Edward Gevertz, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, L.L.P., Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellant. George Benjamin Hyler, Jr., Hyler, Lopez & Walton, Asheville, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: R. Lawrence Ashe, Jr., Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, L.L.P., Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellant. Michele M. Walton, Hyler, Lopez & Walton, Asheville, North Carolina, for Appellee. Ann Elizabeth Reesman, Corrie L. Fischel, McGuiness & Williams, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae.

Before NIEMEYER and KING, Circuit Judges, and LEE, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge LEE joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

The district court denied Champion International Corporation, the prevailing defendant in this Title VII action, the costs ordinarily awardable to prevailing parties under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(d)(1) because of the plaintiff's "good faith, modest means, comparative lack of economic power...

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