Bradford v. HSBC Mortgage Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.

At issue at the conclusion of this long-running TILA1 matter is the determination of a reasonable attorney’s fee for a TILA claimant who enjoyed only partial success. This determination requires resolution of the following three questions:(i) whether a TILA claimant who prevails on a § 1641(f)(2) claim against a loan servicer for failure to respond properly to the claimant’s request for the identity of the loan’s owner may include in his fee petition the hours his attorney spent litigating the owner’s identity in pursuit of an ultimately…