Legal Opinion
McGuire v. Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 24, 1989No. Nos. 88-1097, 88-1109, 88-1143 and 88-1257PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILL, Senior District Judge.
This is an appeal from the district courts’ awards of attorney’s fees in four social security cases. The claimants were granted awards after remand from the district courts to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the “Secretary”). In each case, counsel had entered into a contingency agreement with the social security claimant. The Secretary opposed the fees as excessive, but the district courts awarded close to the full amounts requested pursuant to the contingency agreements. This appeal followed. We affirm two of the cases and remand two of them for…
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