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Supreme Court considers Georgia religious liberty case
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...story.html

"Chike Uzuegbunam lost the legal battle to evangelize his dedication to Jesus at the public college he attended, but he won the war: Georgia officials not only revoked the restrictive speech regulations at his school, but at all others in the state system.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with the question of whether that should be enough, or if Uzuegbunam was also entitled to pursue what Justice Elena Kagan called the “psychic satisfaction” of a court decision in his favor and the nominal award of $1...."

Court is debating whether to hear a case that he has already effectively won. Lower courts dismissed the case as moot.

"...Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said he suspected the case was really about attorney fees. If a court finds a constitutional violation, the government is on the hook to pay attorney fees for the challenger. The situation is more complicated if the government just changes the restriction or the case is dismissed.

“That may be what’s really at stake here,” he said.

If so, that is important, too, Waggoner said. Congress and the courts have long recognized that awarding attorney fees to those who challenge unconstitutional actions is “critical to not only the plaintiffs that are losing their civil rights and injured in these actions, but it’s critical to our nation and it’s a noble purpose to vindicate those constitutional rights.”"
01-22-2021 11:17 AM
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