3/24/16 – By Dara Kam, News Service of Florida
Groups that successfully challenged the Florida Legislature’s congressional map aren’t entitled to recover millions of dollars in legal fees from the state, an appellate court ruled Thursday.
A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal unanimously rejected arguments from a coalition of voting-rights organizations and a group of voters that their lawyers had essentially done the work of a “private attorney general” while state Attorney General Pam Bondi “sat on the sidelines.”
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