Virginia Motorists Take Fight With State Over Attorney Fees to Supreme Court

The drivers won a court order in a civil rights lawsuit blocking a Virginia law, but the state refused to cover their legal expenses.
Virginia Motorists Take Fight With State Over Attorney Fees to Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on July 29, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
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Motorists suing Virginia urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 5 to require the state to pay their attorney’s fees after they met with partial success in a civil rights lawsuit challenging a policy on driver’s license suspensions.

The case centers on a now-repealed Virginia statute that mandated the automatic suspension—without notice or a hearing—of driver’s licenses for people who fail to pay court fines and fees.