Legal Opinion
Sandoval v. Apfel
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided February 29, 2000No. 3:98-cv-02090PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FITZWATER, District Judge.
The instant application under the Equal Access to Justice Act (“EAJA”), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), for an award of attorney’s fees and photocopying costs in this social security disability case presents issues concerning the awardability and reasonableness of the fees requested. The court must decide inter alia whether the prevailing plaintiff can recover fees for services that his attorney of record outsourced to a lawyer who neither appeared in this case nor is admitted to practice in this court or state, and fees for the out-of-state attorney’s contract paralegal. The…
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