Haynes Boone is seeking $1.94 million in fees after it secured a final injunction against a Texas law requiring booksellers to assign sex-content ratings to books sold to public schools.
The firm says the state must pay up under a federal law that awards fees to the prevailing party in a civil rights case.
“The topics and issues that arose in this case are not topics or issues on which ‘canned’ briefing is available or on which the law is well-settled,” Haynes Boone partner Laura Lee Prather said in a motion Tuesday. “Each issue and motion required independent research and ...