Evelyn De Jesus v. Banco Popular De Puerto Rico

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• construing the parallel provision of the Truth in Lending Act to mandate a fee award to a prevailing plaintiff
• construing the parallel provision of the Truth in Lending Act to mandate a fee award to a prevailing plaintiff
• construing the parallel provision of the Truth in Lending Act' to mandate a fee award to a prevailing plaintiff
• rejecting defendant's attempt to limit \prevailing party\ status to plaintiffs \whose damage awards closely approximate the sums sought\
• looking to precedent regarding grant of attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. 1988 in interpreting \similar\ attorney's fees provisions of Truth in Lending Act
• finding that the Supreme Court has held “unanimously that the degree of the plaintiffs success in relation to the other goals of the lawsuit is a factor critical to the determination of the size of a reasonable fee, not to eligibility for a fee award at all”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).