United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review is denied after an agency decision to deny attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act for the challenger in a challenge to sanctions imposed on a nursing home by defendant-agency where: 1) there was substantial justification for charges against petitioner that the agency later dropped; and 2) the petitioner prevailed in the remaining proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/04/2007
• Decided 07/23/2007
• Published 07/23/2007

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert M. Hesslink, Jr. (argued), Verona, WI, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael O. Leavitt, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, Donna Morris Weinstein, Barbara F. Altman (argued), Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the General Counsel, Chicago, IL, Richard D. Humphrey, Office of U.S. Attorney, Madison, WI, for Respondent.