{"id":3392,"date":"2012-04-04T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/04\/04\/good-start-to-mon\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:09","slug":"good-start-to-mon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3392","title":{"rendered":"A Good Start To The Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15984,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/legaltimes.typepad.com\\\/blt\\\/2012\\\/04\\\/dc-gun-case-lawyers-reach-settlement-with-city-over-attorney-fees.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Coming off the month of March in which he had wins at the District Court level in both the <em>Woollard<\/em> and <em>Bateman<\/em> cases, Alan Gura starts the month of April with news of a fee settlement with the District of Columbia for more than US District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan had awarded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legaltimes.typepad.com\/blt\/2012\/04\/dc-gun-case-lawyers-reach-settlement-with-city-over-attorney-fees.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From BLT: The Blog of the Legal Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The attorneys who won the landmark D.C. gun case in the Supreme Court in 2008 have agreed to settle a legal fee dispute with the city for $1.5 million, terminating a dispute in a Washington federal appeals court.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs&#8217; lawyers, including Alan Gura of Alexandria&#8217;s Gura &amp; Possessky, who argued the high profile gun rights case in the Supreme Court, had sought more than the $1.17 million a trial judge awarded in December.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I still think the District of Columbia is getting off cheap, I&#8217;m glad to see Alan Gura and Clark Neily finally getting paid for their years of work on the <em>Heller<\/em> case.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the city said they decided to settle to avoid the &#8220;uncertainties&#8221; of the appeals process. Given that first and foremost Alan is an appellate attorney, I think this probably was wise on the part of the city.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming off the month of March in which he had wins at the District Court level in both the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1260,3861,1417,2562],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alan-gura","tag-d-c-v-heller","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-legal-fees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7869,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions\/7869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}