In an appeal from a district court's order awarding attorney's fees directly to plaintiffs rather than to their attorneys under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), the order is affirmed where the prevailing party, and not her attorney, is the proper recipient of attorney's fees under the EAJA.
Read Bryant v. Comm'r. of Soc. Sec., No. 08-6375
Appellate Information
Argued: July 28, 2009
Decided and Filed: August 24, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Cole
Counsel
For Appellants:
Wolodymyr Iwan Cybriwsky, Law Office, Prestonsburg, KY
For Appellee:
Jeffrica Jenkins Lee, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC
