United States Ninth Circuit

A "sentence four remand" under 42 U.S.C. section 405(g), concerning decisions of the Commissioner of Social Security, constituted a final judgment for purposes of determining the timeliness of an attorney's fees petition under the Equal Access to Justice Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/06/2002
• Decided 07/18/2002
• Published 07/18/2002

Judges

• Before CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, SILVERMAN and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Ohanian, Palos Verdes, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lawrence A. Levey and Richard Fox, Office of the General Counsel, Social Security Administration, Baltimore, Maryland, for the defendant-appellee.