United States Seventh Circuit

In a ERISA benefit plan case, district court's judgment reducing an award of plaintiff's attorney's fees on grounds that it was disproportional to the damages claimed, is reversed and remanded where in the context of comparison between a plaintiff's damages and his attorney's fees, the notion that the fees must be calculated proportionally to damages is rejected.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/20/2009
• Decided 08/20/2009
• Published 08/20/2009

Judges

• BAUER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, MANION and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William W. Leathem (argued), Attorney, Jacobs, Burns, Orlove, Stanton & Hernandez, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• M. Anne Hannigan, Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.