Legal Opinion
Yordanos Muhur v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 24, 2004No. 02-3597PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Yordanos Muhur, who succeeded in obtaining from us a reversal of her removal order and the remand of her case for asylum to the immigration service, 355 F.3d 958 (7th Cir.2004), now seeks an award of attorneys’ fees and costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d)(1)(A). The Act provides that a court shall award the “prevailing party” his attorneys’ fees and other expenses “unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust.”
The petition presents several issues.…
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