The bill for Heller: $3.5 million

[slackmaster]

Great use of public funds there, DC.

Lawyers who won the historic Second Amendment gun rights case in the Supreme Court — District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290) — on Monday asked a federal judge to award them more than $3.5 million for attorneys’ fees, plus $13,215.30 for expenses and court costs. In a motion and memorandum filed with U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, the attorneys said that they had achieved “one of the most profound and important victories available under our system of justice.”

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/the-bill-for-heller-35-million/

[virginia mountainman]

1. Mayor Fenty...time to pay up....nt

Or do you want to go to court some more and rack up MORE charges??

[tburnsten]

2. Why not allow the champions of D.C. to pay it personally?

They will do anything in their power to keep D.C. "safe", I'm sure they would love to keep the District from paying that legal bill for their failings right?

[aikoaiko]

3. I bet that will give him another migraine.

[MACpistol.com]

4. Government deserves to pay for tyranny

Awesome. I normally don't like it when courts make the person who lost a case to pay "court costs" (which their taxes already paid for), but government SHOULD pay when it works to destroy our rights.