Labels:book | daily | reckoner | sky | tree | windowpane OCR: 16 award of fees to a "prevailing should embrace the identical standard for awards to prevailing defendants Petitioner contends that "[a]nalogies to the interpretation f similar language' in the civil : rights statutes improper and must be rejected' 18) 32 his view whereas copyright defendants "provide benefit to the general public by litigating their position. "[there are no similar balancing considerations in the civil rights area Br. 22 32} Moreover, he asserts unlike the Copyright Act. the civil rights acts were "designei to redress violations of civil rights and to provide access the courts to those wha have been discriminated against" Br These purported distinctions are mistaken. First, as the Court recognized ir Christiansburg Garment even civil rights cases "there are equitable con ...
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