Legal battle over Snowball costs more than $86,000
The legal battle over a 7-year-old deer named Snowball has cost the state of Oregon more than $86,000 so far.
A $1 federal civil-rights verdict against a Seattle police officer who held a man at gunpoint during a 2007 off-duty traffic stop has cost taxpayers nearly $600,000 in legal fees, with maybe more to come, as City Attorney Pete Holmes asks the US Supreme Court to hear the case.