Sanzari v. Secretary of Health & Human Services

RULING ON MOTION FOR ATTORNEY FEES

DORSEY, District Judge.

Counsel for plaintiff have petitioned for an award of attorney fees in the amount of $9,800.90. That figure represents twenty-five percent of the past-due benefits paid by defendant to plaintiff as a result of the judgment entered on April 4, 1986, which reversed defendant’s disposition of this matter and remanded the case solely for the purpose of calculating and paying the benefits found to have been improperly denied plaintiff. Counsel invoke 42 U.S.C. § 406(b)(1)1 as authority for the proposition that this court may award attorney *273fe…