NC: Firm offered to take prayer appeal for freeWinston-Salem Journal: “Local attorneys in the law firm of Kilpatrick Stockton offered to take over the county’s defense of its prayer suit for free, just days before last week’s vote by the Forsyth County Board of Commissions to appeal the case to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals . . . The result [of the vote] was a 4-3 vote . . . to appeal and have the Alliance Defense Fund continue to represent the county . . . Mike Johnson, one of the ADF attorneys representing the county, said that no firm knows the law in the area of prayer as well as his does. ‘We are a giant organization with 1,600 lawyers, and we do these kinds of cases all across the country,’ Johnson said, claiming an ’82 percent winning percentage’ on cases that the ADF chooses to litigate.”
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