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DECKER v. SULLIVAN

No. 91-3340.

976 F.2d 456 (1992)

Robin D. DECKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 29, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony W. Bartels, Jonesboro, Ark., argued, for plaintiff-appellant.

Joyce Shatteen, Dallas, Tex., argued (Charles A. Banks, Gayla Fuller and Joyce Shatteen, Dallas, Tex., on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, ROSS, Senior Circuit Judge, and LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

After a decade of litigation, the Secretary of Health and Human Services awarded Robin Decker Social Security disability insurance benefits for injuries suffered in a head-on automobile collision. The district court awarded Decker attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), but reduced the award by $1,675 on the ground that Decker's counsel spent 16.75 of the submitted hours working on a duplicative administrative...

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