A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a Texas federal judge's award of more than $6.7 million in attorneys' fees for the law firms and civil rights groups that successfully challenged a restrictive Texas law requiring voters to present identification before being allowed to vote.
that the plaintiffs were the "prevailing parties" in the litigation in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
"We are very pleased with the ruling, which confirmed that we had achieved a victory on behalf of voters of color in Texas," Ezra Rosenberg, a lead plaintiffs' lawyer in the case and co-director of the voting rights project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, told Reuters. State lawmakers in 2017 had enacted a new and less restrictive photo identification provision for voters, following an interim order by U.S. District Judge Nelva Ramos in Corpus Christi, Texas, blocking enforcement of the law for the 2016 election.
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