Rebuffing the state’s argument that a conservative Christian group was not entitled to fees in a case where its client received only $1 in damages, a federal judge has awarded the group $34,772 for prevailing in its efforts to uphold the constitutional rights of an evangelist on the SUNY Albany campus.
Northern District Judge Glenn Suddaby (See Profile) reduced the requested award of $56,057 that attorneys for the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Alliance Defending Freedom sought, but granted significantly more than the zero the state attorney general’s office would have offered.
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