Legal Opinion
John Stevenson v. Trw Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 1, 1993No. 91-7142PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
TRW Inc. is a credit-reporting firm that appeals a judgment against it for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 1681-1681t). Following a bench trial, the district court awarded John M. Stevenson actual damages of $30,000 for mental anguish, punitive damages of $100,000, and attorney’s fees of $20,700 for TRW Inc.’s negligent and willful violations of the Act. After carefully reviewing the record, we affirm the district court’s findings of negligence and the award of actual damages and attorney’s fees, but we reverse the finding of…
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