Wiley Rein lawyers who successfully challenged a section of the Voting Rights Act in the U.S. Supreme Court are not entitled to collect $2 million in legal fees from the government, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled on Sept. 1.

The Voting Rights Act, or VRA, allows judges to award “reasonable” attorney fees to the winning party in a case brought “to enforce the voting guarantees of the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendment.” A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found that the fee provision did not apply to Wiley Rein, which represented Shelby County, Alabama, in its challenge to the voting law.

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