Lawyers who successfully challenged a key provision of the Voting Rights Act can't recover $2 million in legal fees from the federal government, Judge John Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday.
May 28, 2014 at 05:20 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legal Times
Lawyers who successfully challenged a key provision of the Voting Rights Act can’t recover $2 million in legal fees from the federal government, a federal judge in Washington ruled Wednesday.
Wiley Rein represented Shelby County, Ala., in its suit against the government. A divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down one of the challenged sections of the voting rights law in June 2013.
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