Legal Opinion
Dish Network Service L.L.C. v. Myers
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided April 25, 2012No. 2D10-4434PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALTENBERND, Judge.
DISH Network Service L.L.C. (“DISH”) appeals a final judgment in a consumer debt collection practices lawsuit under the Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act (“FCCPA”). See §§ 559.55-.785, Fla. Stat. (2002). The judgment awards James Myers $5000 in actual damages, $1000 in statutory damages, $16,933.77 in costs, and $176,992.64 in attorneys’ fees. DISH challenges only the award of fees.
We conclude that the trial court erred by including travel time in its calculation of the lodestar fee award. It also erred in applying a contingent-fee multiplier of 2.0 that would have…
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