If Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker wants to continue fighting an order requiring Georgia to pay more than $10.5 million to attorneys who challenged the state’s foster care system, he can thank Judge Edward E. Carnes of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for doing some of the work to get the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.
Carnes, who in July compared the civil rights lawyers seeking the fees to a greedy John D. Rockefeller, was one of three 11th Circuit judges who last week dissented from that court’s decision not to revisit its precedent on when civil rights lawyers should get bonuses for a job well done.
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