Legal Opinion
Frances GUGLIETTI, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant, Appellant
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 23, 1990No. 89-1281PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) asseverates that a fee award entered in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), was improvident. We are persuaded that the Secretary is correct and therefore reverse.
I
Plaintiff-appellee Frances Guglietti received Social Security disability benefits from and after April 1978. The Secretary subsequently concluded that appellee was no longer disabled and, in October 1980, stopped paying her. Guglietti invoked her right of…
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