Clayton v. Colvin

Filing 14

ORDER Granting Joint Motion for the Award and Payment of Equal Access to Justice Act Fees and Expenses 13 Motion for Attorney Fees. Signed by District Judge Dana M. Sabraw on 3/5/2025. (bdc)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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Case No.: 24-cv-2257-DMS-JLB

EDWARD W. CLAYTON,
Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING JOINT
MOTION FOR THE AWARD AND
PAYMENT OF EQUAL ACCESS TO
JUSTICE ACT FEES AND
EXPENSES

v.
LELAND DUDEK, Acting Commissioner
of Social Security,
Defendant.

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Pending before the Court is the parties’ Joint Motion for the Award and Payment of
Equal Access to Justice Act Fees and Expenses. (ECF No. 13). The Court finds that the
rates requested are consistent with the statutory maximum hourly rates, as described by the
Ninth Circuit. See Statutory Maximum Rates Under the Equal Access to Justice, U.S. CTS.
FOR THE NINTH CIR., https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/attorneys/statutory-maximum-rates/

(last visited Mar. 5, 2025). The parties’ requested legal assistance rate is also consistent
with legal assistant or paralegal rates awarded in this district. See Durruthy v. Charter
Commc’ns, LLC, No. 20-CV-01374-W-MSB, 2021 WL 6883423, at *6 (S.D. Cal. Sept. 30,
2021) (collecting cases). The Court also finds that hours expended by Plaintiff’s counsel
to be reasonable. Accordingly, the Court ORDERS that fees and expenses in the amount
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