The legal-fees provision, he wrote, "was enacted to ensure that civil rights plaintiffs are adequately represented, not to provide such a windfall".
"A fee of this magnitude probes the limits of propriety and requires the courts to rule whether the practice of law, which bars attorneys from accepting unreasonable or illegal fees, will permit counsel to enjoy such a windfall".
In 1963, when $30,000 could support even a halfway frugal middle-class family for six years, a sane man might have taken the weekend to decide what to do with such a windfall.
Industry sources say that the sectors most likely to benefit from such a windfall include oil, gas, water and financial services.
But the state's income-tax revenues, which have been swollen by the proceeds from taxing stock options and capital gains in Silicon Valley, have collapsed (see chart).Outsiders might argue that California was lucky to have had such a windfall.
How the league intends to spend this money and what such a windfall will do to the game and to the discrepancy of income among clubs is now a looming question, prey to anxious speculation.
Not only are most winners unprepared to handle the realities of such a windfall, but, thanks to the lotteries, winners are forced to live their post lottery lives squarely in the public eye.
Taxpayers stood to share in any of the profits, though the prospects of such a windfall were seen as secondary to the goal of unclogging the markets.
The prospect of such a windfall can encourage your agent to hold at bay or deal unfairly with buyers represented by others, even if they might offer you more.
Such a windfall could provide farmers with a cushion to ride out the current crisis, which prompted a faction of growers to file a lawsuit against the company last fall demanding that the entire cooperative be allowed to vote on whether the company should go on the auction block.
