ELUSTA v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 11-2261.

696 F.3d 690 (2012)

Morad ELUSTA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 4, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph T. Gentleman (argued), Attorney, Gentleman Law, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Suzanne M. Loose (argued), Attorney, City of Chicago Law Department, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

David A. Cerda (argued), Attorney, Cerda Law Office, Chicago, IL, pro se.

Zane D. Smith (argued), Attorney, Zane D. Smith & Associates, Ltd., Chicago, IL, pro se.

Sheila Genson, Law Office of Sheila Ann Genson, Ltd., Schaumburg, IL, pro se.

Before WOOD, WILLIAMS, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.


WOOD, Circuit Judge.

This is a case about attorney's fees.1 But it is not the typical attorney's fees case in which an attorney seeks review of a court's award, perhaps arguing about an improperly calculated lodestar. Instead here, a client — Morad Elusta — seeks to compel two of his former attorneys, Zane Smith and Sheila Genson, to turn over some of the fee award to him. Smith...

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