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TRAHAN v. BRADY

No. 89-5278.

907 F.2d 1215 (1990)

Ava P. TRAHAN, et al., Appellants, v. Nicholas F. BRADY, Secretary of the Treasury, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 17, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neal S. Dudovitz, with whom Gill Deford, Los Angeles, Cal., Michael R. Schuster, and Richard Hubbard, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Janet Kay Jones, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Shirley D. Peterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., Gary R. Allen, and Ann B. Durney, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before D.H. GINSBURG, SENTELLE and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SENTELLE.

SENTELLE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the denial of an application for attorneys' fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act ("EAJA"), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d). Because we find that the District Court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that the government's position in the underlying dispute was substantially justified, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

In 1982 the Social Security...

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