Lawyers for the city of Chicago maintain the plaintiffs’ attorneys in the gun rights case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court should not be awarded legal fees because the city voluntarily repealed its handgun ban before any final judgment was issued.

At issue in the fee dispute is whether the plaintiffs’ lawyers, including Alan Gura of Alexandria, Va.’s Gura & Possessky, were the so-called “prevailing parties” in the Second Amendment litigation.