Sheppard v. Flemming

HARRY E. WATKINS, District Judge.

A petition has been filed in this Court for the approval of attorney fees charged as a result of the representation of a plaintiff in his appeal from an adverse decision of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, to the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.

The plaintiff in the appeal to this Court had previously applied to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for allowance of a period of disability under the applicable provisions of the Social Security Act, as amended. After an adverse decision of the…