Legal Opinion
Cynthia Lee v. Thomas & Thomas, Timothy K. Gibson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 24, 1997No. 94-4274PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
This is a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case in which the plaintiff appeals from an attorney fee award that she contends was inadequate.
The magistrate judge who issued the award found, expressly or implicitly, that the defendants’ violation of the Act was purely technical in nature; that the plaintiff had suffered no actual damages; that fee considerations led to the rejection of an offer to confess judgment in an amount which would have paid all statutory damages that the plaintiff had any hope of recovering, plus a reasonable estimate of accrued attorney…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Hensley v. EckerhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Blum v. StensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Everett Hadix v. Perry JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1995
- Arsenia Tolentino, and v. Lawrence Friedman, and Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995
- Vicki Frey v. Richard J. Gangwish IICourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1992
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3Cited by29 opinions
- William C. Lewis v. Acb Business Services, Inc., (96-3093/3498), American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. James P. Connors, (96-3498)Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1998
- Martha Dowling v. Litton Loan Servicing LPCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2009
- Vicki Linneman v. Vita-Mix Corp.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2020
- Cabala v. CrowleyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2013
- French v. Corporate Receivables, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2007
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