Wisconsin: Lawmaker in attorney fee cap debate has lawyer bill pending

[Scuba]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/lawmaker-in-attorney-fee-cap-debate-has-lawyer-bill-pending-133116863.html


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The lawmaker who introduced a bill to cap attorney fees in consumer litigation never mentioned that he, as a landlord, faces a pending claim of $20,000 in such fees from a case over a student house in Whitewater.

Rep. Robin Vos (R-Rochester) said he wrote the bill capping fees at three times a plaintiff's monetary damages after a car dealer in his district had to pay $150,000 in attorney fees over a $5,000 repair a customer said he never authorized. The Burlington dealer agreed to settle the case with the customer.

The new law would presume that reasonable fees are no more than three times any monetary damage award but would allow judges to exceed that if plaintiffs' attorneys could prove the limit was unreasonable.

During neither a Senate committee hearing on the bill nor in interviews with reporters, did Vos ever disclose his own personal interest in the issue.

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[dembotoz]

1. vos is a sack of dog feces--this is not a surprise

prob wants to be a slumlord on steriods