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| Students awarded $289,000 for role in prison suit |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/29/2004 |
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A federal judge is awarding $289,000 in legal fees to nearly three dozen law students and their supervisor for their role in winning religious rights for Muslim inmates in the California prison system. Thirty-four students at a University of California, Davis, legal clinic put in nearly 2,000 hours of work on the case. Judge Lawrence Karlton says they should be paid $ 60 an hour - or a total of nearly $115,000. The balance will go to the attorney who took on the inmates' case at the clinic and kept it after she moved to private practice. The state is appealing Karlton's ruling that prison officials can't punish Muslim inmates for wearing half-inch long beards or attending religious services. |
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