Legal Opinion
Atalla v. United States Citizenship & Immigration Services
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 1, 2014No. 12-15309Unpublished
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ***
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) appeals the district court’s order awarding attorney’s fees to Jamal Atalla pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act (“EAJA”). 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d)(1)(A). We reverse.
USCIS denied Atalla’s application for naturalization 1 and he commenced this action for review of that decision. 2 The district court granted his petition and we affirmed. See Atalla v. USCIS, 541 Fed.Appx. 760, 761 (9th Cir.2013) (‘Atalla I”). The district court also granted attorney’s fees pursuant to the EAJA, and this appeal followed.
USCIS asserts that…
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