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"Feist" also fice n. Chiefly Southern U.S.

Regional Note: Feist, also fice, is one of several regional terms for a small mixed-breed dog. Used throughout the Midland and Southern states, feist connotes a snappy, nervous, belligerent little dog, hence the derived adjective feisty, meaning "touchy, quarrelsome, or spirited," applicable to animals and to people. Although feist remains a regional word, feisty has now entered standard usage throughout the United States.

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From the Blog of LegaTimes: Fee Dispute in Gun Case Heats Up

Dick Heller of D.C. v. Heller fame has his gun permit, but his lawyers -- the ones who successfully argued for his individual right to keep and bear arms -- are still trying to pry their fees from the District of Columbia.

Heller’s team of lawyers, led by Gura & Possessky’s Alan Gura, wanted nearly $3.6 million in attorneys’ fees and costs for about six years of toil on the case. They asked Judge Emmet Sullivan for a fee enhancement, based on the exceptional nature of the case

The fee enhancement would multiply each lawyer’s hours by two, so Gura’s estimated 1,661 hours, at a rate of $557 per hour, would earn him about $1.9 million.

The city proposed $798,232 in fees and $9,480 in litigation costs

The SCOTUSBlog noted a couple of months ago

that Gura had asked for “an exiguous payment” [dictionary definition: excessively scanty] to get involved, but “never saw this as anything other than a pro bono case.”

He asked that the Court keep confidential the details of that arrangement