Brief Re Criminal Justice Debt (Champagne v. v. Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, L.L.P., 4:20-cv-00275-SMR-SBJ (S.D. Iowa Mar. 18, 2022))
This is the consumers' reply to the defendant's objection to the consumers' request for attorney fees. The settled case involved a law firm's use of allegedly unfair debt collection practices when it sought to recover its appointed counsel fees from the indigent defendants it was representing in criminal cases. Among other reasons why the consumers argued for the court to award them significant attorney fees was the novelty of the case. The consumers raised claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and civil rights statutes, and the reply goes i