Legal Opinion
Louise Cole and Densey Cole v. Andrew Wodziak
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 2, 1999No. 98-3030PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
A jury awarded plaintiffs $4,500 in damages under the Pair Housing Act of 1968 after concluding that Andrew Wodziak, their landlord, had evicted them because they received a black friend in their apartment. They had asked for $50,000, and in administrative proceedings for $75,000. Later they sought more than $85,000 as attorneys’ fees under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1988(b) and 3613(c)(2). A magistrate judge, presiding under 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) by mutual consent, whittled down the request by excluding time he thought unnecessary for a simple case (there had been no substantive…
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