United States Ninth Circuit

In consolidated appeals from fee awards to attorneys who successfully represented Social Security Disability Insurance claimants in federal court under contingent-fee contracts, the awards are vacated where the district court failed to follow the mandate of Gisbrecht v. Barnhart, 535 U.S. 789 (2002), in determining the fee awards.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/22/2009
• Decided 11/04/2009
• Published 11/04/2009

Judges

• Before:  ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, MARY M. SCHROEDER, B. FLETCHER, HARRY PREGERSON, STEPHEN REINHARDT, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, MARSHA S. BERZON, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, CARLOS T. BEA, and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lawrence D. Rohlfing, Santa Fe Springs, CA, for the real parties in interest-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael E. Robinson, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellee.