Legal Opinion
Bonnie Lee Mendenhall,petitioner v. National Transportation Safety Board Federal Aviation Administration
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 22, 2000No. 98-70211PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether a federal agency properly determined an award of attorneys’ fees to a petitioner wrongly charged with violating that agency’s regulations.
I
This case first came before us as a petition for review of an order issued by the National Transportation' Safety Board (“NTSB”) denying attorneys’ fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (“EAJA”), Pub.L. No. 99-80, 99 Stat. 183 (1985), codified at 5 U.S.C. § 504, 28 U.S.C. § 2412. See Mendenhall v. NTSB (“Mendenhall I”), 92 F.3d 871 (9th Cir.1996). There, we held that the position that the Federal…
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