Wesley Arvin Seals v. Commissioner of Social Security

United States District Court for the Central District of California

Wesley Arvin Seals v. Commissioner of Social Security

Trial Court Opinion

1 STUART T. BARASCH, ESQ. Of Counsel, Olinsky Law Group 2 P.O. Box 961719 3 El Paso, TX 79996 4 Telephone: (213) 621-7622 Facsimile: (213) 621-2536 5 Email: [email protected] 6 Attorney for Plaintiff, Wesley Alvin Seals 7

8 NICOLA T. HANNA. ESQ. 9 United States Attorney 10 DAVID M. HARRIS, ESQ. 11 Assistant United States Attorney Chief, Civil Division 12 CEDINA M. KIM, ESQ. 13 Assistant United States Attorney MARLA K. LETELLIER, ESQ. 14 Special Assistant United States Attorney 15 Social Security Administration 160 Spear Street, Suite 800 16 San Francisco, CA 94105 17 Telephone: (415) 977-8928 18 Facsimile: (415) 744-0134 Email: [email protected] 19 20 Attorneys for Defendant

21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 22 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA-RIVERSIDE DIVISION

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24 WESLEY ALVIN SEALS, 25 Plaintiff, CASE NO.: 5:19-cv-02382-JEM 26

27 -v- 28 1 1 COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, 2 Defendant. 3 4 ORDER AWARDING ATTORNEY’S FEES PURSUANT TO THE EQUAL ACCESS TO 5 JUSTICE ACT,

28 U.S.C. § 2412

(d) 6 7 Before the Court is the Stipulation of Plaintiff, Wesley Alvin Seals, for 8 award of attorney’s fees pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act,

28 U.S.C. § 9

10 2412(d). Based on the pleadings as well as the position of the defendant 11 commissioner, if any, and recognizing the Plaintiff’s waiver of direct payment and 12 13 assignment of EAJA to his counsel, 14 15 16 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that attorney fees and expenses in the amount of 17 Three Thousand Four Hundred Thirty-One Dollars and Fifty-Eight Cents 18 ($3,431.58) pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act,

28 U.S.C. § 2412

(d) are 19 20 awarded to Plaintiff. Astrue v. Ratliff,

130 S.Ct. 2521

(2010). 21 22 If the U.S. Department of the Treasury determines that Plaintiff’s EAJA 23 24 fees, expenses, and costs are not subject to offset allowed under the Department of 25 the Treasury’s Offset Program (TOPS), then the check for EAJA fees, expenses, 26 27 28 2 1 and costs shall be made payable to Plaintiff’s attorney’s Law Firm Olinsky Law 2 Group. 3 4 5 Whether the check is made payable to Plaintiff or to Olinsky Law Group, the 6 check shall be mailed to the following address: 7 8 9 Olinsky Law Group 10 250 S Clinton St Ste 210 11 Syracuse, NY 13202 12 13 So ordered. 14 /s/ - John E. McDermott Date: October 29, 2020 _____________________________ 15 Hon. John E. McDermott 16 United States Magistrate Judge 17 18 Order proffer: Stuart T. Barasch; copy to Marla K. Letellier 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3

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