Who says the wheels of justice grind slowly? OK, in this case it’s the determination of legal fees that took three and a half years, and no one’s going to cry a river over lawyers waiting for the dough. Except maybe Ralph. But we’re trying to keep our schadenfreude meter from spinning off into the stratosphere at the news, via huffingtonpost.com, that Richard Heller’s attorneys, led by Alan Gura, were just awarded $1,137,072.27 in fees and expenses for their work in the DC vs. Heller case decided by the Supreme Court in 2008…
Even better, the city of Washington, D.C., after infringing on its citizens’ constitutional rights, will have to pony up. The attorneys wanted $3.1 million and D.C. argued it should only be $840,000, so the federal judge who decided the matter split that baby closer to the District’s number. Of course, D.C. is a federal district, which means we’ll all ultimately have to chip in a few pennies to cover the bill, but I’ll be happy to kick in for that one. Spend it well, Mr. Gura. You earned it.