Latosha Latrice Nowden v. Commissioner of Social Security

Opinion

Of Counsel, Olinsky Law Group 2 P.O. Box 961718 3 El Paso, TX 79996 4 Telephone: (213) 621-7622 Facsimile: (213) 621-2536 5 Email: Stuartbarasch@gmail.com 6 Attorney for Plaintiff, Sergio Martin

7 NICOLA T. HANNA. ESQ. 8 United States Attorney DAVID M. HARRIS, ESQ. 9 Assistant United States Attorney 10 Chief, Civil Division Assistant United States Attorney 12 IN SEON JEONG

13 Special Assistant United States Attorney Social Security Administration 14 160 Spear Street, Suite 800

15 San Francisco, CA 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8984 16 Email: inseon.jeong@ssa.gov 17 Attorneys for Defendant 18 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 19 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA-RIVERSIDE DIVISION 20

21 LATOSHA LATRICE NOWDEN, 22 23 Plaintiff, CASE NO.: 5:18-cv-02475-SP

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26 Defendant. 27 28 1 FEES PURSUANT TO THE EQUAL ACCESS TO 2 JUSTICE ACT, 28 U.S.C. § 2412 (d) 3 4 Before the Court is the Stipulation of Plaintiff, Latosha Latrice Nowden, for 5 6 award of attorney’s fees pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 7 2412(d). Based on the pleadings as well as the position of the defendant 8 commissioner, if any, and recognizing the Plaintiff’s waiver of direct payment and 9 10 assignment of EAJA to her counsel, 11

12 13 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that attorney fees and expenses in the amount of 14 Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000.00) pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 15 U.S.C. § 2412(d) are awarded to Plaintiff. Astrue v. Ratliff, 130 S.Ct. 2521 (2010). 16 17 18 If the U.S. Department of the Treasury determines that Plaintiff’s EAJA 19 20 fees, expenses, and costs are not subject to offset allowed under the Department of 21 the Treasury’s Offset Program (TOPS), then the check for EAJA fees, expenses, 22 and costs shall be made payable to Plaintiff’s attorney’s Law Firm Olinsky Law 23 24 Group. 25

26 27 28 2 1 Whether the check is made payable to Plaintiff or to Olinsky Law Group, the 2 check shall be mailed to the following address: 3 4 5 Olinsky Law Group 6 250 S Clinton St Ste 210 Syracuse, NY 13202 7

8 So ordered. 9 10 Date: July 29, 2020 ______________________________ 11 Sheri Pym 12 United States Magistrate Judge 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3