Rawlings v. Heckler

JAMES M. BURNS, Chief Judge,

Sitting by Designation, specially concurring in part and dissenting in part:

I concur, in the main, in Judge Tang’s opinion as indicated herein. I write separately to call attention to the problems created by the increasing time spent litigating attorney’s fee issues. I see it increasingly in my ordinary work, i.e., on the trial court. Indeed, I recently indulged in an inelegant figure of speech in a case before me, Stanwood v. Green, 559 F.Supp. 196 at 202 (D.Or.1983) in which it seemed as if attorneys spent almost as much time litigating the attorney’s fee issue…