Lawyers Seek Fees in Alabama Case
Attorneys who won a federal court order for Alabama’s chief justice to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state’s judicial building have asked for $704,000 in legal fees and expenses.
A motion filed in federal court Monday asks U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson to approve the payment for the work of six attorneys during a seven-day trial and for more than a year’s preparation.
Thompson ruled that the 5,300-pound granite monument to the Ten Commandments is unconstitutional and gave Chief Justice Roy Moore 30 days to remove it. Moore, who had the monument moved into the rotunda last year, has said he plans to appeal the ruling.
Moore has said the money to fight the lawsuit would come out of his pocket or from his supporters.
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