[Cincinatus' Wife]

***.... At the council meeting last Monday, members forgot to say the prayer. Maybe their minds were on the $65,490 in legal fees Great Falls owes Wynne's lawyer. This is a back-breaking sum for the one-stoplight town of about 2,300, which has seen its population plummet since the last of its three mills closed in 1984. The fees amount to more than a quarter of the town's annual administrative budget. ...***

Bump!

[Mamzelle]

So much for the ACLU being a "pro bono" org, as they deceitfully style themselves. These are what is known as "reasonable and customary" fees which are awarded winning plaintiffs. Winning defendants don't get such things...defendants always lose.

How I loathe the lawyer parasite class.