Legal Opinion
Chandler v. Gober
United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
Decided December 31, 1997No. 96-1171PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IVERS, Judge:
On April 1, 1997, this Court denied the veteran’s petition for extraordinary relief in the nature of mandamus in which the veteran contended that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) had taken more than two and one-half years after remand to formulate a decision which still had not been rendered. See Chandler v. Brown, 10 Vet.App. 175 (1997). On April 21, 1997, the petitioner filed an application for an award of attorney fees and expenses under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 28 U.S.C. § 2412. The Court has jurisdiction to award attorney fees pursuant to section 506 of…
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- Correa v. HecklerDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1984
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