COOPER v. RETRIEVAL-MASTERS CREDITORS BUREAU, INC.

No. 18-2358.

42 F.4th 675 (2022)

Jack W. COOPER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. RETRIEVAL-MASTERS CREDITORS BUREAU, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 29, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Celetha Chatman , Attorney, Community Lawyers LLC, Chicago, IL, Seth McCormick , Attorney, Great Lakes Consumer Law Firm, LLC, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Nick Reck , David Spears , Attorneys, Spears & Imes, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before Wood, Hamilton, and Jackson-Akiwumi, Circuit Judges.


This appeal addresses attorney fee awards to prevailing plaintiffs under consumer-protection statutes where damages are usually modest and the plaintiff has rejected what hindsight shows to have been a substantial early settlement offer. Plaintiff Jack Cooper sued defendant Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau for violating...

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