Fees Might Have Been Over $99,000 Sans The Settlement, With Federal Court Earlier Finding The Ban Violated The Equal Protection Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment.
According to a column by Betsy Z. Russell which can be found at a May 18, 2018 post on the Idaho Press-Tribune’s website, Idaho’s top officials approved a $75,000 payout to attorneys successfully representing two transgender women born in Idaho who sued to overturn the state’s law forbidding changes to the gender listed on a person’s birth certificate. (The record showed the claimed fees could have exceeded $99,000 in the absence of the settlement.)
A federal judge in March 2018 ruled that the Idaho law violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and also ordered the state to begin allowing such changes. Three other states do not allow similar changes to a birth certificate: Kansas, Ohio, and Tennessee.