Joseph Trichilo v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• permitting recovery of attorney’s fees incurred in connection with time expended seeking such fees under the EAJA
• “background and substance of [the EAJA] convince us that congress intended the measuring point for inflationary increases in the attorney’s fee cap to be October 1, 1981”
• “[W]e will not interpret a statute so that some of its terms are rendered a nullity.”
• where Government’s position is found not to be substantially reasonable, the attorney’s fees should include time spent litigating the fee
• “If counsel makes inflated or outrageous fee demands, the court could readily deny compensation for time spent in pressing them, since that time would not have been reasonably spent.” (internal quotation omitted)
• “If counsel makes inflated or outrageous fee demands, the court could readily deny compensation for time spent in pressing them, since that time would not have been reasonably spent.” (internal quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).