In a story in The New York Times about the state being forced to pay $135,000 in legal fees to attorneys for a same-sex couple seeking a marriage license, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel took S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson to task for criticizing opposing attorneys’ work as excessive:
“If that is so, one might reasonably ask why the state filed a 57-page brief raising a broad array of procedural and substantive issues, including a methodical attack on recent Fourth Circuit precedent. [The attorney general] “cannot engage in a no holds bar defense and then complain,” [that the opposing counsel spent too much time responding.]
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