State and local officials in South Carolina and West Virginia are opposing hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fee requests filed by plaintiffs who successfully challenged same-sex marriage bans.
In South Carolina, the state attorney general’s office argued in court papers on Jan. 16 that the plaintiffs’ lawyers shouldn’t receive any fees because they had “merely ridden the coattails of the huge amount of legal work already done on the issue of same-sex marriage.” The plaintiffs sought nearly $153,000 in fees and costs.
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