Credit: fotofabrika/Adobe Stock Judge Reduces Attorney Fees for 'Partial Success' in State Election Law Challenge
"Based on my review of other attorney's fee awards in this district over the past several years, adjusted to reflect the cost of legal services in the winter of 2021 (when the bulk of the work in this case occurred), these fee strike me as appropriate for experienced counsel. Accordingly, the fee award will be calculated using the secretary's proposed rates," wrote U.S. District Judge Lance E. Walker of the District of Maine.
July 18, 2022 at 05:16 PM
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A federal court judge granted less than half of the plaintiffs' request for more than $353,000 in attorney fees, finding they did not achieve "full success" on all of their motions in a case challenging Maine election laws.
James Baines, chair of the Libertarian Party of Maine, as well as other party leaders, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine against the Maine secretary of state in November 2019.
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