Here is the order granting the City $1000 from the plaintiffs:
DCT Order on Taxation of Costs
The City had asked for almost $20,000. An excerpt:
Under the unusual facts ofthis case, the Court in its discretion awards a portion of the costs to the Defendant in the amount of $1,000.00 against Plaintiff Pearl Cottier and awards no costs against Rebecca Three Stars as she is a poor person who brought an action on behalf of other Native American voters with no possibility ofmonetary gain for herself. Pearl Cottier may well have trouble paying her bills, but she is not a poor person. She, too, stood to gain nothing financially from this lawsuit brought in South Dakota on behalf of not only herself and other Native American voters in Martin, but also all Native Americans voters in South Dakota from a precedent point of view. Ms. Cottier is required to pay $1,000.00 in costs to the Defendants.
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