The lawyers who defeated Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban in the Supreme Court, successfully arguing that Americans have an individual right to arm themselves, want about $3.5 million for their trouble, according to a motion for attorney fees and costs filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The team — financed by The Cato Institute’s Robert Levy and led by civil rights and intellectual property lawyer Alan Gura — says it clocked at least 3,273 hours in the course of District of Columbia v. Heller, which was filed in February 2003 and concluded in spectacular fashion on June 26, the last day of the high court’s cycle. The lawyers anticipate the District will oppose the motion, but they’ve not received a response, the motion says.
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