The head of the Washington office of the law firm that backed out of an agreement to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on behalf of House Republicans is offering new details on the firm’s high-profile reversal.It was an “unfortunate misunderstanding” between King & Spalding’s J. Sedwick “Wick” Sollers and former Solicitor General Paul Clement that lead to the reversal, Sollers said in a statement to the Daily Report (sub. req.), the National Law Journal‘s Atlanta affiliate.
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