Nancy Lee Ferland v. Conrad Credit Corp., a California Corporation Gregg A. michel,ph.d., an Individual Does 1-20, Inclusive

Following her successful suit against the Conrad Credit Corp. (“CCC”) for violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (the “Collection Act”), 15 U.S.C. § 1691 et seq., the district court granted Nancy Lee Ferland’s request for attorneys’ fees. In doing so, however, the court declined to grant fees for certain time Ferland’s attorney submitted on the case and approved fees for less than half the remaining total number of hours the attorney actually expended. Ferland appeals the fee award. We find error in some of the district court’s calculations, and conclude that its explanation for…