Lay v. Commissioner of Social Security

COOK, Circuit Judge.

This appeal considers whether the district court abused its discretion in granting the Commissioner of Social Security’s motion for relief from judgment reducing the attorney’s-fee award to Wolodymyr Cy-briwsky for his work on behalf of Bennie R. Lay, Jr. Cybriwsky’s representation of Lay resulted in the Social Security Administration (SSA) finding Lay disabled from June 28, 2000, to January 3, 2012, Realizing that the original amount of past-due benefits used to calculate Cybriwsky’s attorney’s fees included benefits from a previous period of disability in which Lay had…