Citing overstaffing and redundant work, a three-judge federal panel has ruled that the fees requested by lawyers for plaintiffs in a lawsuit that forced the redrawing of Maine’s two congressional district lines should be cut by about 53 percent, from roughly $150,000 to about $70,400.
The lawyers in question-Timothy Woodcock of Eaton Peabody and four Baker & Hostetler attorneys, including election law counsel E. Mark Braden-represented William Desena and Sandra Dunham who sued the state of Maine, Governor Paul LePage, three other state officials, and the state’s Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions in March 2011. (Read the complaint.)
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