151629P.pdf   08/19/2016  John Galloway  v.  The Kansas City Landsmen, LLC
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-1629
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Benton, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Civil case - Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act. This class action 
   was settled by the issuance of coupons and the award of attorneys' fees 
   was governed by the provisions of Section 1712 of the Act; while the 
   district court erred by following the Ninth Circuit's case of In re HP 
   Inkjet Priner Litig., 716 F.3d 1173 (9th Cir. 2013), which follows a 
   mandatory approach in applying Section 1712(a)-(c), without explicitly 
   stating that the award of attorneys' fees was based on an exercise of the 
   court's discretion to determine a reasonable attorney fee, the plaintiffs 
   do not argue that the award was an abuse of the court's discretion; the 
   Court's own review of the record establishes that any award greater than 
   that made would be unreasonable in light of class counsel's success in 
   obtaining value for the class and any error the district court may have 
   made is harmless.