United States Tenth Circuit

In a Social Security benefits case, denial of plaintiff's Fed. R. Civ. P. 60 motion requesting that the court either set aside an administrative offset to an award of attorney's fees the court made to her under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) or amend the fee order to award the EAJA fees to her counsel is affirmed where the district court properly made the attorney's fees award to plaintiff and that award was subject to administrative offset for her unpaid student loan debts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2007
• Published 12/21/2007

Judges

• ANDERSON, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs: , Richmond J. Brownson, Timothy M. White, Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General;  William Kanter, Michael E. Robinson, Attorneys, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney, Muskogee, OK, of Counsel) for Defendant-Appellee.