Dale Wells, William Hlywa v. Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Appeal of John S. Hogg

GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

For the second time these two social security cases are on appeal on issues of attorney’s fees. In the first appeal, Wells v. Bowen, 855 F.2d 37 (2d Cir.1988) (Wells I), we held that an attorney may apply for and be awarded fees under both the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), and the Social Security Act (SSA), 42 U.S.C. § 406(b), and we remanded for a determination of a reasonable fee under § 406(b). Now, John S. Hogg, plaintiffs’ attorney, appeals from a further order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New…