Gun Policy News
Lobbyist Lawyers Demand $3.5 Million for Beating Washington Gun Ban
7 September 2008
Washington Post, Editorial
Talk about adding insult to injury. The lawyers who successfully challenged the D.C. gun ban are now asking the city's taxpayers to pay their legal fees. The tab: more than $3.5 million.
Under long-established law, plaintiffs lawyers who prevail in certain kinds of civil rights cases are entitled to demand that the loser pay their legal bills. These fee-shifting statutes were enacted in large part to encourage competent lawyers to take on important civil rights cases... (GunPolicy.org)