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The state Department of Justice has agreed to pay $1.6 million to lawyers who represented Planned Parenthood and other plaintiffs in a lawsuit over a court-rejected hospital admitting privileges requirement for abortion doctors, to cover lawyer fees and other costs, according to an agreement filed in federal court Wednesday.

The settlement, reached earlier this month, is to pay expenses incurred by Planned Parenthood, Milwaukee Women’s Medical Services and others as they successfully fought a state law that required doctors at clinics that perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. The plaintiffs were represented by lawyers for the ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation and the Madison law firm of Cullen Weston Pines & Bach.

U.S. District Judge William Conley ruled the law to be unconstitutional in March 2015. His judgment was affirmed in November by the U.S. District Court for the 7th Circuit, which said that the law would put more women in danger while doing so on “the basis of spurious contentions regarding women’s health.”

The state Department of Justice sought a U.S. Supreme Court review of the law, but was denied in June. Justices refused to hear Wisconsin’s appeal a day after ruling against Texas, which had placed similar hospital admitting privilege requirements on doctors who perform abortions.

In July, lawyers for the plaintiffs initially sought $1.8 million in fees and costs to cover expenses. A stipulation between the plaintiffs and DOJ called the agreement “a full, final and complete compromise and settlement of all claims, actual, doubtful, or disputed.”

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