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JOHNSON v. SULLIVAN

Nos. 89-2834, 89-2842, 89-2904, 90-2260.

919 F.2d 503 (1990)

Kim JOHNSON, Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of Health & Human Services, Appellee. Eddie GAGE, Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Appellee. Ethel FREDERICK, Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Appellee. Alfred A. SMITH, Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 23, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Wolfman, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

Joyce Shatteen, Dallas, Tex., for appellee.

Before LAY, Chief Judge, and HEANEY and TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judges.

HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Appellants, prevailing parties in actions brought against the Secretary of Health and Human Services challenging denials of Social Security disability benefits, made applications for awards of attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d) (EAJA). At issue in these consolidated appeals is whether the district court abused its discretion in denying appellants' counsel attorney's fees of more than $75 per...

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