Allegheny County must pay a group of sex offenders nearly $325,000 in attorney fees after the group successfully challenged the enforceability of a local ordinance restricting the offenders’ residency.
The group can collect the fees even though they prevailed in federal court on a state-law claim of pre-emption that does not provide for attorney fee awards, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Gary L. Lancaster of the Western District of Pennsylvania said in his ruling.
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