United States Seventh Circuit

In an ERISA benefit plan case, judgment reducing an award of plaintiff's attorney's fees on grounds that it was disproportionate 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.