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BALDOCK, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff-appellant Mary Chynoweth appeals from a district court ruling denying her request to exceed the $75 per hour cap on attorney’s fees awarded to her pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 28 U.S.C. § 2412. Plaintiff argues that her attorney’s expertise in Social Security disability law constituted a “special factor” under U.S.C. § 2412(

*1357 RIPPLE, Circuit Judge. After William Raines won entitlement to social security disability benefits and supplemental security income, the district court awarded him attorney fees and expenses under the Equal Access to Justice Act (“EAJA”), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d)(2)(A). The Secretary of Health and Hum

519 F.Supp.2d 1291 (2007) FORMER EMPLOYEES OF BMC SOFTWARE, INC., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF LABOR, Defendant. Slip. Op. 07-150, Court No. 04-00229. United States Court of International Trade. October 15, 2007. Miller & Chevalier Chartered (Alexander D. Chinoy, Hal S. Shapiro, Kevin P. DiBartolo, and James B. Altman), for Plaintiffs.

609 F.Supp.2d 85 (2009) The HUMANE SOCIETY OF the UNITED STATES, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Defendant. Civil Action No. 07-1233 (JR). United States District Court, District of Columbia. April 23, 2009. *88 Jonathan Russell Lovvorn, Kimberly Denise Ockene, Rebecca Gerber Judd, The Humane Society of the United Stat

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE ) OF THE UNITED STATES, ) ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 07-1233 (JR) ) UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, ) ) Defendant. ) _________________

305 F.Supp.2d 1229 (2003) NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Plaintiff, and LOCAL UNION NO. 1385, Western Council of Industrial Workers, Plaintiff in Intervention, v. PUEBLO OF SAN JUAN, Defendant. No. CIV. 98-35 MV/RLP. United States District Court, D. New Mexico. December 4, 2003. *1230 Margery E. Lieber, Eric G. Moskowitz, Na

ELIZABETH A. WOLFORD, United States District Judge BACKGROUND Plaintiff Jolly Manoj Caplash ("Plaintiff") commenced this litigation on December 29, 2015, and requested that this Court set aside the denial and subsequent refusals to reopen Plaintiff's Form I-130 family-based immigration petition (the "Petition") filed on behalf of his brother with the United States Citizenship and Immigratio

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ASYLUMWORKS, et al., Plaintiffs, Civil Action No. 20-cv-3815 (BAH) v. Judge Beryl A. Howell ALEJANDRO N. MAYORKAS, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION On February 7, 2022, this Court held that two rules co

KATZMANN, Circuit Judge. This case arises out of a class action suit filed on behalf of home-bound Medicare beneficiaries who rely on Medicare coverage for various in-home services provided by home health agencies (“HHAs”). The merits of the plaintiffs’ action have already been resolved, and we are called upon to determine whether the plaintiffs are entitled to attorneys’ fees under

485 F.3d 63 Ruth HEALEY, Marcia Lutwin, Jane Kozlowski, Margaret A. Walz, Roger Audette, Marion Morgan, by Her Next Friend Dorothy M. Hiltz, Julia M. Culver, by Her Next Friend Rev. Horace Mitchell, Bertha P. Chiplin, by Her Next Friend Alfred J. Chiplin, Sr., Linda Wierda, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants,Madalyn Rovner, Roland Cote, Florentina Calderon, By Her Next Friend Eva Moreno, Helen Bagwell, Maxine Marmor, Deborah Sergesketter, Ka

221 F.Supp.2d 1020 (2002) Larry ROARK, Plaintiff, v. Jo Anne BARNHART, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant. No. 00-4084-CV-C-REL-SSA. United States District Court, W.D. Missouri, Central Division. August 27, 2002. *1021 Dewey Crepeau, Columbia, MO, for plaintiff. David Detar Newbert, Assistant United States Attorney

793 F.Supp. 812 (1992) Esther MARCUS, Michelle W., by her next friend Marie W., Larry Ryne, Consuelo Allen, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant. No. 85 C 453. United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D. May 26, 1992.

774 F.Supp. 559 (1991) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Charles D. HUGELMEYER, Defendant. No. CIV 90-317-PHX-EHC. United States District Court, D. Arizona. August 22, 1991. Suzanne M. Chynoweth, Asst. U.S. Atty., Phoenix, Ariz., for plaintiff. Stephen W. Myers, T. Dawn Farrison, Myers, Barnes & Jenkins, Phoenix, Ariz., for defendant.

Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge TRAXLER wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Judge GOODWIN joined. OPINION TRAXLER, Circuit Judge. In this latest chapter of the Hyatt class action litigation, the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (the “SSA”) appeals the district court’s order granting plaintiffs’ Seventh and Eig

315 F.3d 239 Patrick H. HYATT; Herman O. Caudle; Mary P. Lovingood, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated; North Carolina Department of Human Resources, Plaintiffs-Appellees,v.Jo Anne B. BARNHART, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellant. No. 01-2021. United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Argued June 3, 2002.

OPINION AND ORDER LETTOW, Judge. A post-trial judgment was issued in plaintiffs favor in this contract ease involving rates for supply of reserved power from hydroelectric units at The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River to an irrigation district in Oregon. See Dalles Irrigation Dist. v. United States, 88 Fed.Cl. 601 (2009) (“Dalles III ”). As allowed by that judgment, plaintiff (“the Distr

McCONNELL, J., joined by TYMKOVICH, J., concurring, and joined by HARTZ, J., and O’BRIEN, J., as to Part I. This Court has traditionally required a heightened showing for preliminary injunctions in three “disfavored” categories: injunctions that disturb the status quo, mandatory injunctions, and injunctions that afford the movant substantially all the relief it may recover at the conclusion of a

389 F.3d 973 O CENTRO ESPIRITA BENEFICIENTE UNIAO DO VEGETAL, also known as Uniao do Vegetal (USA), Inc., a New Mexico corporation on its own behalf and on behalf of all its members in the United States; Jeffrey Bronfman, individually and as President of UDV-USA; Daniel Tucker, individually and as Vice-President of UDV-USA; Christina Barreto, individually and as Secretary of UDV-USA; Fernando Barreto, individually and as Treasurer of UDV-USA; Chris