Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.

Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 7, 1968 Decided March 18, 1968
Full case name	Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
Citations	390 U.S. 400 (more) 88 S. Ct. 964; 19 L. Ed. 2d 1263; 1968 U.S. LEXIS 2168
Case history
Prior	256 F. Supp. 941 (D.S.C. 1966); 377 F.2d 433 (4th Cir. 1967)
Holding
One who succeeds in obtaining an injunction under Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should ordinarily recover an attorney's fee under § 204(b) unless special circumstances would render such an award unjust, and should not be limited, as the Court of Appeals held, to an award of counsel fees only if the defenses advanced were "for purposes of delay, and not in good faith." Fourth Circuit reversed.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Abe Fortas · Thurgood Marshall
Case opinion
Per curiam
Marshall took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc., 390 U.S. 400 (1968), is a 1968 United States Supreme Court case in which the court held per curiam that after a successful effort to obtain an injunction under Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, attorney's fees under Section 204(b) are generally recoverable.^[1][2]