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SD To Pay $9K To Former Gubernatorial Candidate’s Attorney

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The state of South Dakota will have to pay about $9,000 in fees to the attorney who successfully represented an independent candidate for governor in a lawsuit against a former secretary of state.

U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol has ordered the state to pay for the dozens of hours that Sioux Falls attorney Edward Welch spent on the case of former gubernatorial candidate Mike Myers.

Myers in August filed the lawsuit after then-Secretary of State Jason Gant declined to change Myers’s running mate on the November ballot.
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Myers picked Lora Hubbel as his running mate when his initial choice, Caitlin Collier, had family health issues.

Piersol later ordered Gant to certify Hubbel as Myers’s running mate. Gant did not appeal Piersol’s decision.

Welch will be paid for 109.5 hours worked.

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