Legal Opinion
McNeill v. Secretary of Health and Human Services
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided June 2, 1989No. CIV-87-1498EPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
ELFVIN, District Judge.
Presently before this Court is the discrete question of a “reasonable” attorney fee to be awarded under the Social Security Act (“SSA”), 42 U.S.C. § 406(b). The abo-venamed plaintiff had been successful in his bid for disability benefits in this action and had thereafter moved for payment of attorney’s fees from the government pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act (“the EAJA”), 28 U.S.C. § 2412, or alternatively from his withheld benefits under the SSA. The motion was construed — in light of the decision in Wells v. Bowen, 855 F.2d 37 (2d…
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