Yesterday I posted about the scathing ruling issued a three-judge panel in Federal court. In their ruling (READ IT HERE), the three-judge panel ruled that a group associated with the Democratic Party has a right to information on how Republican lawmakers drew Wisconsin’s new legislative districts following the 2010 census.
Having had a chance to read the full decision issued by the three-judge panel, a decision I’d categorize as the judicial equivalent of a “smackdown,” I’m most amused by the order “that the that the attorneys for the Wisconsin State Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly, Eric M. McLeod, Joseph L. Olson, Aaron H. Kastens, and Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, jointly and severally, shall remit to plaintiffs’ counsel, as a sanction by the Court, the actual reasonable and necessary attorneys’ fees and costs incurred by the plaintiffs in responding to the motions of the Wisconsin State Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly[.]”
Mandating that the attorneys for the defendants who are attempting to delay and obfuscate the discovery process pay the attorney fees of their counterparts for the plaintiffs? PRICELESS.
I wonder if the documentation will explain the process by which they gerrymandered individual donors into districts to favor particular candidates. Legal or not, will that be viewed by voters in a positive light?
Paying for the other sides fees? The attorney’s paying? That is surely priceless. I think it is very rare, as well. Let me check with my lawyer.