Saluja Thangaraja v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

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• rejecting enhanced fees where attorney's specialized knowledge was not necessary in routine immigration case
• cost-of-living increases are calculated by multiplying the $125 statutory maximum hourly rate by the annual average consumer price index figure for all urban consumers (“CPI-U”) for the years in which the attorney’s work was performed and dividing by the CPI-U figure for March 1996 (155.7
• “Our holding that the agency’s decision of Thangaraja’s case was unsupported by substantial evidence is therefore a strong indication that the ‘position of the United States’ in this matter was not substantially justified.”
• calculating hourly rate adjustments using the national CPI

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