Opinion
CIVIL ACTION NO. 10-0658
03-29-2012
JERRY C. BROOKS, Plaintiff, v. MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant.
JUDGE LANCASTER
Filed Electronically
ORDER
AND NOW, this 29th day of March, 2012, upon consideration of Plaintiff's Motion for an Award of Attorney's Fees Pursuant to § 206(b) of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 406(b)(1), and there being no objection by counsel for the Defendant, it is hereby,
ORDERED
as follows:
1. The Court authorizes a payment in the amount of nine thousand, two hundred, seventy nine dollars and twenty five cents ($9,279.25), in attorney's fees being withheld from Plaintiffs past-due benefits for court related services;
2. Upon receipt of this sum, Lindsay Fulton Brown shall remit five thousand four hundred dollars and 00/00 cents ($5,400) directly to Plaintiff, representing the sum already paid to Karl E. Osterhout on Plaintiff's behalf pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE