Nothing is ‘patently ridiculous’ when it comes to Obama at spending money, especially other people’s money that he didn’t earn. We all see that it is a fact that the Obama campaign has paid Perkins & Coie millions of dollars. Barack Obama does not care that he crazily over-payed for services to defend his presidency even if it was 10 grand per page. Obama loves to spend. You only have to watch him spend and plan to spend tax payer’s money at rates not ever seen before.
A fourth case (the seriously racist case The Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations of Missouri et al v. Obama et al) was sealed, and so Plaintiff's counsel is unknown. But let's go ahead and assume it WAS Perkins Coie. Every other case is specifically noted as NOT having Obama-paid counsel.
However, the counsel in Keyes v. Bowen was NOT from Perkins Coie. The attorney was from the California firm Strumwasser & Woocher. So anything he charged wouldn't be included in any payments to Perkins Coie. (And, in fact, he worked pro bono.)
So that's just three cases with Perkins Coie attorneys. At most. If, just to be generous, we go ahead and assume the existence of an unknown case where Obama paid for his own defense, that's a total of four cases.
Thus, the average expense per case becomes a whopping $500,000.00 per case.