John Oguachuba v. Immigration and Naturalization Service and Dale Thomas, Warden of the Metropolitan Correctional Center

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• denying attorneys’ fees under the special- circumstances-make-an-award-unjust exception under the EAJA, because, in classic equity terms, prevailing party was without clean hands
• denying attorneys’ fees under the special- circumstances-make-an-award-unjust exception under the EAJA, because, in classic equity terms, prevailing party was without clean hands
• awarding plaintiff attorneys’ fees would be inequitable when the litigation resulted from plaintiffs own purposeful repeated violations of law
• noting in dicta that “counsel has no standing to apply to the public fisc for payment . . . on his own behalf” under the Equal Access to Justice Act, which provides that “‘a court shall award to a prevailing party . . . fees and other expenses’” (quoting 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d
• “The EAJA . . . explicitly directs a court to apply traditional equitable principles in ruling upon an application for counsel fees by a prevailing party.”
• “The EAJA . . . explicitly directs a court to apply traditional equitable principles in ruling upon an application for counsel fees by a prevailing party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).