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WHEELER v. HECKLER

No. 85-5435.

787 F.2d 101 (1986)

Creola WHEELER v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services. Appeal of Margaret M. HECKLER, Sec. of Health and Human Services.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 27, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., W. Hunt Dumont, U.S. Atty., Newark, N.J., Donald A. Gonya, Randolph W. Gaines, John B. Watson, Gwenda Jones Kelley (argued), Baltimore, Md., for defendant-appellant.

Jeffrey G. Paster, Sheryl Gandel Mazur, West Orange, N.J., (argued), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before ALDISERT, Chief Judge, and SEITZ and ADAMS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

This case presents a labyrinthine question concerning the calculation of attorney fees for representation of a Social Security disability insurance claimant. The district court concluded that the method employed by the Social Security Administration (SSA) for determining the attorney fee in this proceeding was not consistent with the relevant statute, 42 U.S.C. § 406(b)(1) (1982), and ordered a different calculation...

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