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CORA-SILVA v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Civ. A. No. 84-1046-T.

642 F.Supp. 931 (1986)

Domingo CORA-SILVA, Plaintiff, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

August 26, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Crowell Freeman Jr., Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

Marianne B. Bowler, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., for defendant.

TAURO, District Judge.

At issue is the Social Security Administration's (SSA) method of calculating permissible attorney's fees following a court award of contested disability benefits. SSA offsets the award of past disability benefits by the amount of other benefits received by the claimant. It then awards a percentage of that net figure as attorney's fees. Claimant disagrees with this aproach, asserting that the fee percentage should be calculated on the basis of...

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