Attorneys representing the State of Alabama have agreed to pay $3 million to attorneys representing plaintiffs in an ongoing congressional redistricting lawsuit.
According to a filing on Wednesday by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, both sides agreed to the total as the years-long lawsuit over Alabama's congressional map continues.
Legislators redrew their congressional districts in a special session last summer, but the court ended up mandating Alabama use a congressional map drawn by a court-appointed special master. The new map gives Democrats a better shot at electing two representatives due to more favorable demographics. Currently, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) is Alabama's lone Democrat in Congress.
"The parties have discussed these issues and agree that the State of Alabama shall pay to counsel for the Milligan plaintiffs the sum of $3,000,000 (three million dollars) in satisfaction of all claims for costs and attorneys' fees related to this Court's preliminary injunction entered on January 24, 2022, the appeal of that order, see Allen v. Milligan, 599 U.S. 1 (2023), and the proceedings that followed in which the 2023 Plan was preliminarily enjoined and the court-drawn map was created and approved," Marshall said in the filing.
A trial in the lawsuit is scheduled for February 2025.
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