United States Fifth Circuit

A calculation of an award of attorneys' fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) is affirmed as the court declines to adopt the Eighth Circuit's rule requiring uniform cost-of-living adjustments throughout each district, and thus, the district court did not abuse its discretion when it considered and rejected plaintiff's request for a cost-of-living adjustment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/05/2006
• Published 10/06/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before KING, HIGGINBOTHAM and GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elizabeth Bower Dunlap, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Edwin Scott Frost, Lubbock, TX, for Barnhart.