Jones v. Commissioner of the Social Security Administration

Filing 37

ORDER granting 33 Motion for Attorney Fees per Rule 406b: The Court authorizes a payment to Harry F. Smithson, Esquire, in the amount of Fifteen Thousand Fifty-Two Dollars and 00/00 cents ($15,052.00) in attorney' s fees being withheld from Plaintiff's past-due benefits for court-related services. It is further ordered that upon receipt of this sum, Plaintiff's counsel shall remit Four Thousand dollars and 00/00 cents ($4,000.00) directly to Plaintiff, representing the sum to be paid to Plaintiff's counsel on Plaintiff's behalf pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412. Signed by Honorable Mary Geiger Lewis on 9/17/2018.(gnan )

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA
FLORENCE DIVISION
DETRA STANETTE JONES,
Plaintiff,
v.
NANCY A. BERRYHILL,
Acting Commissioner
of Social Security,
Defendant.

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Civil Action No. 4:16-CV-0376-MGL

ORDER
On Plaintiff's Motion for Attorney’s Fees pursuant to § 206(b)(1) of the Social Security
Act, 42 U.S.C. § 406(b)(1), and there being no objection by counsel for the Defendant, it is
hereby
ORDERED that the Court authorizes a payment to Harry F. Smithson, Esquire, in the
amount of Fifteen Thousand Fifty-Two Dollars and 00/00 cents ($15,052.00) in attorney’s fees
being withheld from Plaintiff’s past-due benefits for court-related services. It is further ordered
that upon receipt of this sum, Plaintiff’s counsel shall remit Four Thousand dollars and 00/00
cents ($4,000.00) directly to Plaintiff, representing the sum to be paid to Plaintiff’s counsel on
Plaintiff’s behalf pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2412.
17th
September
ENTERED this ______ day of ____________________, 2018.

s/ Mary G. Lewis
Mary G. Lewis
United States District Judge