{"id":5018,"date":"2010-12-23T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T11:26:09","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5018","title":{"rendered":"ABAJ: Feds ordered to pay $2.5M attorneys fees in warrantless wiretap case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/govt._must_pay_lawyers_2.5m_in_case_re_illegal_wiretap_of_islamic_charity_o\/\">Feds Must Pay Islamic Charity Lawyers and Their Counsel $2.5M in Warrantless Wiretap Case<\/a>, by Martha Neil:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The chief federal district court judge in San Francisco has ordered the federal government to pay more than $2.5 million, primarily in attorney&#8217;s fees, concerning its warrantless wiretap, under an executive surveillance program authorized by President George W. Bush, of two Washington, D.C., lawyers for a now-shuttered Islamic charity in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Vaughan Walker yesterday awarded $20,400 each in damages to attorneys Asim Ghafoor and Wendell Belew, and nothing to the charity, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/22\/us\/22charity.html?_r=1\">New York Times<\/a> (reg. req.) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfappeal.com\/news\/2010\/12\/judge-awards-25-million-lawyers-for-islamic-charity-who-say-they-were-illegally-wiretapped.php\">SF Appeal<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5018\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}