A Louisiana appeals court has awarded $2 million in fees and costs to a Houston lawyer who has spent more than a decade in a bitter battle against Louisiana’s attorney general over the lack of handicapped-accessible restrooms at a public university.
The Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal on Sept. 5 entered the award for Seth Hopkins in a case he brought on behalf of Collette Covington, a student at McNeese State University. Hopkins helped Covington obtain summary judgment in her 2001 federal civil rights case against the Lake Charles, La., college after she was unable to use the restrooms at the student union.
