Federal Judge Kristine Baker entered an order Friday awarding a total of $19,950 in attorney fees in the federal case that successfully challenged the state ban on same sex marriage.

Baker's award substantially reduced the amounts sought by the lawyers.

Baker awarded $18,360 to Jack Wagoner and members of his firm and $1,590 to Cheryl Maples, who joined the case late in its development. Wagoner had sought $49,754 and Maples had sought $16,411. Baker said they hadn't submitted sufficient evidence for hours submitted and the hourly rates claimed and also said some hours claimed amounted to duplicative effort. She pegged rates of pay to Wagoner's agreement to work at a reduced rate of $100 an hour in an arrangement with the Arkansas Public Law Center, a nonprofit that agreed to help support the case.

I'm a member of the board of the Public Law Center.

The judge said said that arrangement amounted to a way to gauge the market value of his work