Lawyers from Dechert and the American Civil Liberties Union are seeking nearly $52,000 in legal fees and expenses for the work they spent on wrangling over Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s compliance with court orders in a voting rights case.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson found Kobach in civil contempt last month for violating orders in the case, a dispute over the state’s documentary proof-of-citizenship law. Robinson in 2016 issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the law, which requires new voter registrants show documents to prove citizenship.

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