Legal Opinion
Carlton L. Owens v. William Brock, Secretary of Labor
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 10, 1988No. 87-5524PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENGEL, Chief Judge.
Appellant Carlton L. Owens appeals the dismissal of his action for attorney fees under EAJA brought in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee Western Division.
Owens’s appeal requires us to consider whether benefit determinations under the Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA), 5 U.S.C. § 8101 et seq. constitute “adversary adjudications” for the purpose of qualifying as appropriate proceedings for the application of the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 5 U.S.C. § 504. We are also presented with the novel question of whether a federal…
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