Since the ordinance was enacted by the city council, Oklahoma City taxpayers must pay the winning side's lawyers. The five lawyers who worked on the team led by Thai, a constitutional law expert, submitted a request in April for $1.3 million, for five years' work. In their reply, attorneys for the city contended their opponents' hourly time-keeping records were imprecise, vague and duplicative. They proposed the city pay $732,640. The civil rights team responded this week to U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton, of the Western District of Oklahoma, who will decide. Either side could then appeal. Saying "their math does not add up," the civil rights team argues the city's figures amount "to an improper invitation to eyeball the fee request and cut it down by an arbitrary percentage.”