Out-of-Town Lawyers Worked for Free to Win Border Wall-Funding Case Against Trump
In the case that ended Oct. 11 with a ruling that the Trump Administration can't spend more on a border wall than Congress authorized, attorneys from Willkie Farr & Gallagher and O'Melveny & Myers worked pro bono, alongside lawyers from the nonprofits Protect Democracy and Checks and Balances, and the think tank Niskanen Center.
October 14, 2019 at 02:49 PM
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Big Law litigators from Washington, D.C., and New York working pro bono were behind the Texas court ruling last week that cut off funding for the Trump Administration's border wall.
Attorneys from Willkie Farr & Gallagher and O'Melveny & Myers donated their work on the case alongside lawyers from nonprofits Protect Democracy and Checks and Balances and think tank Niskanen Center to represent the plaintiffs, El Paso County and the Border Network for Human Rights.
On Oct. 11, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas found that President Donald Trump violated federal law by declaring a national emergency in order to use more funds on the border wall than Congress had appropriated.
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