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WATFORD v. HECKLER

Nos. 84-7829, 84-7830.

765 F.2d 1562 (1985)

Willie L. WATFORD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee. Jimmie Lee SCOTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Certiorari Denied July 1, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Broward Segrest, Calvin C. Pryor, Asst. U.S. Attys., Montgomery, Ala., for defendant-appellee.

Lawrence F. Gardella, Legal Services Corp. of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., William Z. Messer, Legal Services Corp. of Alabama, Phenix City, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Before VANCE and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and LYNNE, District Judge.

Certiorari Denied July 1, 1985. See 105 S.Ct. 3531.

LYNNE, District Judge:

These consolidated appeals1 present a question of first impression in this Circuit concerning the interplay between the standards for an award of attorneys' fees against the federal government as litigant under the Equal Access to Justice Act ("EAJA"), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), and the limitations on the amount of contingent fees recoverable by the plaintiffs...

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