http://www.spokesrider.com Bicycle touring and history Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:30:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.spokesrider.com/2007/12/21/marantettes-government-paid-lawyer/ http://www.spokesrider.com/2007/12/21/marantettes-government-paid-lawyer/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:07:50 +0000 Spokesrider http://www.spokesrider.com/2007/12/21/marantettes-government-paid-lawyer/ The new piece of information is that the government defended the suit against Marantette. I had known from reading the journal of the court that Andrew Backus had been an attorney for Marantette, but I had assumed that Marantette stood the cost himself. It turns out this is not so. In this letter Mason informs Schoolcraft that the government hired Backus to defend him, and that Backus was paid $300 for his work. That's nearly three times of the damages and court costs assessed against Marantette. Nothing new about the ratio of lawyer fees to jury awards, I suppose.

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