VOUGHT v. BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

Case No. 10-CV-2052.

901 F.Supp.2d 1071 (2012)

Jeanette VOUGHT, Mark Skutack, Daneen Skutack, and Roger E. Frock, on behalf of themselves and a class of all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., and BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP, Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. Illinois, Urbana Division.

October 4, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher M. Ellis, Jon D. Robinson, Shane Michael Mendenhall, Bolen Robinson & Ellis, Decatur, IL, Charles E. Schaffer, Levin Fishbein Sedran & Berman, Michael D. Donovan, Donovan Searles LLC, Philadelphia, PA, Eric D. Holland, Gerard B. Schneller, Holland Groves Schneller & Stolze, St. Louis, MO, Michael D. Braun, Braun Law Group PC, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs.

Derek S. Holland, Jena M. Valdetero, Steven R. Smith, Bryan Cave LLP, Chicago, IL, Jeffrey S. Russell, Bryan Cave LLP, St. Louis, MO, Brian Michael Smith, Heyl Royster Voelker & Allen, Urbana, IL, for Defendants.


OPINION

MICHAEL P. McCUSKEY, District Judge.

Judge Posner recently wrote for the Seventh Circuit:

It is a curiosity of class action litigation that often there is greater ferocity in combat among the class lawyers over the allocation of attorneys' fees than there is between the class lawyers and the defendants. The contest among the lawyers is a zero-sum game. But the contest between them and the defendants is a positive-sum game because the class...

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