We Earned the Fees in the Gun Case

Vindication of fundamental civil rights is not an "injury," and asking that the government be held liable for the cost of enforcing our civil rights laws is no "insult" ["Holding Up Taxpayers," editorial, Sept. 6]. --------cut-------------- Awarding successful civil rights lawyers below-market rates for taking such enormous risks would send the bar a terrible message: Ignore injustice, unless you can afford to fight it. Our requested rates are based on documented market realities, not on the government's wishes about what it would like to pay. I was shocked at The Post's suggestion that civil rights lawyers are somehow the lesser...

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