Whitt v. Philadelphia Housing Authority (In Re Whitt)

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• concluding such awards “are allowable only to embellish actual damages”
• costs and attorneys’ fees under §362(h), which later became §362(k), are allowable only to “embellish actual damages”
• costs and attorney fees are allowable only to embellish actual damages
• costs and attorney fees are allowable only to embellish actual damages
• the possibly innocent and mild violations of the automatic stay, coupled with the tenant’s failure to produce any evidence of actual damages, precluded any award of monetary damages or attorney’s fees to the debtor, and confined her to declaratory relief
• attorney's fees are only allowed “to embellish actual damages”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).