Lawyers: Texas owes $741,000 in legal fees in gay marriage case

[TexasTowelie]

Texas should be ordered to pay almost $741,000 in legal fees after losing the court fight to preserve its ban on same-sex marriage, lawyers told a federal judge Friday.

Lawyers for two couples who sued to overturn the state ban argued that they are owed $720,794 in attorney fees — a figure they said came at a substantial discount from rates they typically charge — and $20,203 in costs for expert witnesses, travel and other expenses.

The money is owed because the couples were the prevailing parties in an “important civil rights case,” the lawyers told U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia in a motion filed Friday.

Their clients, the lawyers said, “achieved overwhelming success” — a permanent injunction barring Texas from enforcing its ban on same-sex marriage “for all gay and lesbian Texans who seek to marry.”

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/lawyers-texas-owes-741000-in-legal-fees-in-gay-mar/nnYX2/

[randys1]

1. Is there a way they can get more? Punitive? Pain and Suffering?

Where is our lawyer

What if they make the case here and in KY that while denied the license they denied themselves sexual gratification because their religion teaches no sex before marriage.

There have been plenty of successful cases where depriving someone of their ability to perform sex (usually from an injury) has monetary damages, that I am sure of.