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The legal team that successfully fought to overturn Wisconsin’s ban on same-sex marriage is asking a federal court to award it nearly $1.25 million to cover attorney fees and costs associated with the case.

The legal team, headed by the ACLU, sued in February to overturn a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage on behalf of eight couples.

In a filing late Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Madison, the team wrote that in part, the hours they put into the case were driven by an aggressive defense of the amendment by lawyers for the state.

“Defendants’ decisions to file multiple motions, conduct discovery, assert novel arguments, and frantically try to stop marriages from occurring increased the substantive and procedural complexity of plaintiffs’ counsels’ work in the trial court and the Court of Appeals, and thus the time required to competently prosecute the action,” wrote lawyers for the plaintiffs.

The group also asked that U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb consider the efficiency of their own work and their need to monitor and adjust to rapid developments in same-sex marriage litigation nationwide.