By Alabama Public Radio
Montgomery, AL – Attorney General Troy King is applauding a federal judge's decision in a discrimination lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Transportation. A consent decree in the case requires the state to pay fines of $63,000 a week until the case is settled. Federal Judge Myron Thompson has cut those weekly fines in half. King says that will save the state more than $1.6 million. The attorney general says he now plans to work to try to end all the fines in the settlement.