United States Tenth Circuit

Because a number of grounds justify the Social Security Administration and Congress treating lawyers and non-lawyer representatives differently when adjudicating Social Security claims, 20 CFR 404.1720(b)(4) does not violate the Equal Protection Clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/20/2001
• Published 07/20/2001

Judges

• REAVLEY, Senior Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, REAVLEY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis W. Montoya of Montoya Law Offices, Rio Rancho, NM, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Martha A. Churchill, Milan, MI, filed a brief on behalf of the amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• August E. Flentje, Attorney, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, (David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General;  William Kanter, and Howard S. Scher, Attorneys, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Washington, DC;  John J. Kelly, United States Attorney, Albuquerque, NM, with him on the briefs), for Defendant-Appellee.