United States Seventh Circuit

In an agency action regarding the award of federal farm program benefits to plaintiffs, summary judgment determining that the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) applies to National Appeals Division (NAD) proceedings, and that plaintiffs were therefore entitled to attorney's fees and costs for their successful NAD appeal, is affirmed where the review of agency determinations by NAD met the statutory definition of a proceeding to which the EAJA applied.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/07/2008
• Decided 09/08/2008
• Published 09/08/2008

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, WILLIAMS and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Charles G. Brown (argued), Boyle Law Dekalb, Dekalb, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Monica Mallory, Office of the United States Attorney, Rockford, IL, William Kanter, John S. Koppel (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.