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To: drc43

The ACLU, like any other litigant who sues for violations of civil rights laws, only gets attorney's fees if they prevail.

The alternative would be for persons to violate civil rights and get away with it because litigants could not not afford to litigate.


27 posted on 12/03/2004 11:04:03 AM PST by CobaltBlue
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To: CobaltBlue
"The ACLU, like any other litigant who sues for violations of civil rights laws, only gets attorney's fees if they prevail." Actually, they get reimbursed even when they lose, if the case involved civil rights. That is what makes them so disgusting.
36 posted on 12/03/2004 12:15:25 PM PST by TommyDale
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To: CobaltBlue
The ACLU, like any other litigant who sues for violations of civil rights laws, only gets attorney's fees if they prevail. The alternative would be for persons to violate civil rights and get away with it because litigants could not not afford to litigate.

Except the taxpayers do not get reimbursed if the ACLU is defeated in one of their lawsuits of adventure.

38 posted on 12/03/2004 12:23:57 PM PST by Hacksaw (You can judge a man by the members of his bump list.)
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