Grine v. Chambers (In Re Grine)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that debtor who prevailed on action to enforce automatic stay was entitled to attorneys’ fees necessary to bring action and criticizing the holding in Sternberg
• concluding that if the fees and costs claimed as damages are proximately caused by and reasonably incurred as a result of the violation then they should be allowed and criticizing Sternberg
• “If litigation -20- is unnecessary to afford a complete remedy to a debtor, then the fees for commencing and prosecuting an action will fail . . . .”
• courts generally apply the \lodestar\ method when determining the reasonableness of attorney's fees.
• courts generally apply the “lodestar” method when determining the reasonableness of attorney’s fees.
• non-debtor’s alleged loss not shown to have resulted from stay violation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).