Legal Opinion
Virginia Fogle and Fatina Fogle v. William Chevrolet/geo, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 26, 2001No. 01-1427PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
After obtaining a favorable settlement of their consumer fraud lawsuit against the defendant, an automobile dealer, in which they had charged violations of the federal truth-in-lending and odometer-tampering statutes as well as various Illinois state laws in the sale of two cars to them, the plaintiffs asked the district court to award them $44,000 (we are rounding off to the nearest $1,000) in attorney’s fees for the work of their lawyer, Andy Norman. Norman had arrived at this amount by multiplying his claimed hourly fee of $310 by the number of hours (143) that he…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Blum v. StensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- General Electric Co. v. JoinerSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- Kenneth Spegon v. The Catholic Bishop of ChicagoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1999
- Continental Illinois Securities Litigation v. Continental Illinois CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Cannon v. William Chevrolet/Geo, Inc.Appellate Court of Illinois · 2003
- Ramirez v. Elgin Pontiac GMC, Inc.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 2002
- Ciccimaro v. Emore (In Re Ciccimaro)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2007
- In re Ginko Associates, L.P.United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2007
- Cannon v. William Chevrolet/Geo, Inc.Appellate Court of Illinois · 2003
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