A federal judge has ordered the Kansas Highway Patrol to pay $2.3 million in legal fees to the plaintiffs who successfully challenged as unconstitutional a technique used by troopers to detect drugs on motorists.
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil awarded about $1.9 million in attorneys fees and about $363,000 in other legal costs stemming from the legal challenge to the so-called “Kansas two-step” case.
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