COLUMBIA, SC, -- Senior US District Court Judge Henry Herlong, Jr. issued his Opinion & Order awarding $197,849.89 in attorney's fees and costs to Christian pro-life missionary Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life, on December 1, 2014. Lefemine has been very ably represented for years by the National Legal Foundation (NLF), whose President is Steven Fitschen. This case has been adjudicated two different times by a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals [ 2012, 2014 ], and once by the United States Supreme Court [ 2012, per curiam, Lefemine v. Wideman, 133 S. Ct. 9 (2012) ]. As of this release, neither side has declared an intent to appeal.
