Robin D. DECKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

After a decade of litigation, the Secretary of Health and Human Services awarded Robin Decker Social Security disability insurance benefits for injuries suffered in a head-on automobile collision. The district court awarded Decker attorney’s fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), but reduced the award by $1,675 on the ground that Decker’s counsel spent 16.75 of the submitted hours working on a duplicative administrative claim. Decker appeals the fee award. Although we agree with the district court’s reasoning, we find plain error in the factual…