Rolling In Justice
By Mitch Berg
Government’s assault on human rights finally hits it where it lives; in its budget.
The District of Columbia owes the plaintiff in Heller Vs. DC for legal fees and expenses:.
Dick Heller sued the city in 2003 over its ban on handgun ownership and the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the ban in June 2008, saying it violated the Second Amendment.
A federal judge on Thursday issued an opinion awarding Heller’s attorneys $1,137,072.27 in fees and expenses. The attorneys had argued they should be awarded $3.1 million. Attorneys for the city said the figure should be closer to $840,000.
Governments can try to ignore speedbumps like “the Constitution” and “the law” and “morality”. But once you start talking money?
This could get fun.
December 30th, 2011 at 8:23 am
1.13 mil? I wonder if Learned Foot is pulling down that kind of cake.
December 30th, 2011 at 8:27 am
One of the ways the ACLU has re-enforced its message of “Nice, financially stable town you got here. It would be a shame if you had to spend millions fighting a lawsuit over a Ten Commandments plaque put up 100 years ago”, are the treble damages they claim and win for their legal fees. It’s bad enough for a law firm to charge you $1.25 per page for the copy of the lawsuit they’ve filed against you. When the meter has an “times 3” on it, you’ll think twice about going against them. Let’s hope the lawyers who take on the grabbers are able to start wringing treble damages out of these city officials who choose to ignore the law and civil rights of their citizens.
December 30th, 2011 at 8:38 am
Somewhat related note… More bad jounalism regarding guns.
http://blog.ariarmstrong.com/2011/12/joey-bunch-misstates-gun-statistics-in.html
If these idiot reporters could both lose their agenda’s and do simple math, we’d see a lot more articles calling for the banning of backyard swimming pools and the outlawing of live-in boyfriends where the girlfriend/baby mama’s children are also living in the home. These two items present a greater danger to children than accidental shootings.
December 30th, 2011 at 10:44 am
“1.13 mil? I wonder if Learned Foot is pulling down that kind of cake.”
Only if Powerball comes through for me. Which could happen if one of you guys bought me a ticket!
December 30th, 2011 at 10:59 am
I followed the link, Seflores. Great resource re “Journalists are trained professionals whose reporting can be trusted”. Apparently the Denver reporter was fooled by confirmation bias. He found a web resource that he viewed favorably and which said its information came from the CDC. The journo then reprinted the bad numbers in a mainstream newspaper w/o ever checking the original source, without mentioning that the number came from a non-CDC source, and was downright obnoxious when a fellow journalist requested a cite.
Bad journalism like this goes on all of the time. Press releases by liberal think tanks are slightly reworded and published as news articles, the conclusions of poorly done, un-reviewed “studies” find their way onto the front page, etc.
December 30th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Sheesh, Foot. I don’t even buy me a ticket!
December 30th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
$662,000 is going to Alan Gura, and he earned every nickel if you ask me. After losing the case DC decided to play cute with registration requirements, odds are that Heller will have them going back to the cash register.