Legal Opinion
Ava P. Trahan v. Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 17, 1990No. 89-5278PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SENTELLE.
SENTELLE, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from the denial of an application for attorneys’ fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (“EAJA”), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d). Because we find that the District Court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that the government’s position in the underlying dispute was substantially justified, we affirm.
I. Background
In 1982 the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) embarked on a plan to verify the income and assets of Supplemental Security Income recipients. The SSA, through a mass mailing, asked…
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