Idaho must pay $400k for contesting same-sex marriage

[Foxaèr]

After losing a battle to keep in place its discriminatory ban on same-sex marriage, the state of Idaho has been ordered to pay the legal fees incurred by same-sex couples who challenged the state in order to receive their constitutionally guaranteed civil rights. The Spokesman-Review reports:

“There is no dispute that Plaintiffs are the prevailing parties and are therefore entitled to an award of reasonable attorney fees and litigation expenses,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale wrote in an order issued late Friday.

The lawyers had sought $467,843; the state’s lawyers had argued for cutting that by more than half to $204,049. But Dale ruled that with only a few exceptions, the legal team led by Boise attorney Deborah Ferguson was entitled to the amounts it claimed, setting the payment at $401,663.

“In order to ensure that lawyers would be willing to represent persons with legitimate civil rights grievances, Congress determined that it would be necessary to compensate lawyers for all time reasonably expended on a case,” the judge wrote, quoting a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Adding to the over $400,000 the state must now pay out to the plantiffs' attorneys is the $87,000 the state spent defending the ban.

http://www.towleroad.com/2014/12/idaho-m...-case.html

[vorlon13]

Seems like a special levy on the Idaho christers might be even more fair. Shame to see all the taxpayers on the hook for the $400K, when it was only the godtards being assholes about it.

[Minimalist]

Good. Let the republicunts pay the freight for their bigotry.

[TaraJo]

Y'know, I've always wondered why they complain about intrusive government controlling us to much, but the second a gay person wants to get married or a woman wants an abortion, that government can't get big or intrusive enough to satisify them. Is a little consistancy too much to ask?

[robvalue]

God damn bigoted arse bastards. Tax the churches until the bill is paid.

Then blow them up.

[Minimalist]

Y'know, I've always wondered why they complain about intrusive government controlling us to much, but the second a gay person wants to get married or a woman wants an abortion, that government can't get big or intrusive enough to satisify them. Is a little consistancy too much to ask?

They are full of shit, Tara. Don't we have enough conservatards around here for you to see that in action?

[abaris]

Y'know, I've always wondered why they complain about intrusive government controlling us to much, but the second a gay person wants to get married or a woman wants an abortion, that government can't get big or intrusive enough to satisify them. Is a little consistancy too much to ask?

They are full of shit, Tara. Don't we have enough conservatards around here for you to see that in action?

But the few that are here are the spitting image of the Fox (un)educated specimen with enough tinfoil around their heads to make sure reason doesn't intrude.

[simplemoss]

Y'know, I've always wondered why they complain about intrusive government controlling us to much, but the second a gay person wants to get married or a woman wants an abortion, that government can't get big or intrusive enough to satisify them. Is a little consistancy too much to ask?

You're mistaken, the republicunts want small "federal" government so that individual states like Mississippi can enact strict white Christian theocratic law. No abortions, no gays, and blacks should only be allowed too live, if they agree to be slaves.

Its the same as the Confederates of the 1800's they argued for "states rights" but really they just wanted the "states rights" too own slaves, just as the Republican party does today

Its no different