Posted on 11/21/2004 1:09:49 PM PST by Ramonan
SACRAMENTO - A federal judge has awarded $289,000 in legal fees to nearly three dozen law students and their supervisor for their role in winning religious rights for Muslim inmates in the California prison system.
Over the seven-year life of the lawsuit, 34 students at the King Hall Civil Rights Clinic at the UC Davis School of Law dedicated nearly 2,000 hours of work.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton on Friday ruled they should be paid $60 an hour for their work between October 1997 and June 2001, or a total of $114,780.
The balance will go to Susan Christian, who took on the inmates' case while she was supervising attorney at the clinic and kept it after she moved to private practice in June 2001.
The state is appealing that decision.
this is the breading ground for the terrorist..... the prisions...... and islam .....
The legal profession has been compromised for a long time by the "whiplash Harry" types that focus on making money from any extortionist and frivolous law they can promote --- ala the ACLU (very extreme case).
Until we have a government, dedicated to cleaning up the entire tort system of law, we will continue to have every whacko and fringe leftist group loading up our legal system with this kind of crap, just to make money.
But hey, it's "faith based."
Where's the ACLU? Isn't this a "separation of church and state" issue? Oh, excuse me. This isn't about Christianity. What was I thinking. It is about that religion of peace.
No s""T... Students making 60 dollars an hour? This is ridiulous.
I think you meant tart reform.
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