EAJA Awards
Agency | Agency subcomponent | Name | Award date | Award amount | Awardees | Claims description | Finding basis | Actions |
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U.S. Department of Defense | Department of the Army | Ronald L. Driscoll v. United States of America |
$ 33,864
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Ronald L. Driscoll | Settlement. Plaintiff's complaint alleged claims for wrongfulful discharge and denial of military pay. | These fees were settled through negotiation. Fees were deemed appropriate as relief was granted on remand and in accordance with a prior court's ruling. | Show | |
U.S. Department of Defense | U.S. Army | Wayne P. Marta v. Secretary of the Army |
$ 22,000
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Wayne P. Marta | Settlement. Plaintiff challenged the decision of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records decision to deny his request to correct his records to show that he elected to transfer unused educational benefits to his children. | These fees were settled through negotiation. Fees were deemed appropriate because the the district court granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and remanded the case back to the ABCMR for further consideration consistent with its opinion. | Show | |
U.S. Department of Defense | U.S. Army | Nicholas Harrison, et al., v. Mark Esper, et al. |
$ 100,000
|
Nicholas Harrison, Richard Roe, Victor Voe and the Modern Miitary Association | Settlement. Plaintiff challenged his disability rating rendered by a PEB and the Physical Disability Board of Review. | These fees were settled through negotiation. Fees were deemed appropriate as relief was granted on remand and in accordance with a prior court's ruling. | Show | |
U.S. Department of Defense | U.S. Army | Charles J. Hubert, et al. v. United States |
$ 17,500
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Charles J. Hubert and Jeremy I. Sunkel | Settlement. Class action lawsuit challenging the manner in which discharge upgrade decisions were made concerning PTSD and other mental health issues. | These fees were settled as part of a negotiated settlement concerning not only fees, but an amicable resolution of multiple matters within the lawsuit. | Show | |
U.S. Department of Defense | U.S. Army | Lucas Calixto, et al. v. Department of the Army, et al. |
$ 550,000
|
Wanjing Li, Jingquan Qu, Xiongzhou Zhang, Xi Zhang, Chenhao Qian, Sansiri Suangchomphan, Lei Liu, Wen Si, Yunzheng He, Wendapagnagde Yabre, Sen Li, Fang Lu, Anton Tate, Yue Yin, Sai Krishna Uppugandla, Zehua Bian, Hyunsung Kim, Chengping Yuan, Gunay Miriyeva, Sandeep Mahat, and Shengfan Yang | Settlement. A case affecting soldiers who enlisted in the U.S. Army (including Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve/Delayed Training Program (“DTP”) and Regular Army/Delayed Entry Program (“DEP”) Soldiers) through the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (“MAVNI”) program. | These fees were settled through negotiation. Fees were deemed appropriate because the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned our initial victory at the Court of Federal Claims and plaintiff received relief as a result of a subsequent evaluation. | Show | |
U.S. Department of Transportation | Federal Aviation Adminstration | True Aviation Charter Services, Inc. |
$ 4,117
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True Aviation Charter Services, Inc. | Settlement of EAJA claim | Settlement | Show | |
U.S. Department of Transportation | Federal Aviation Administration | Protest of PHT Aerospace LLC |
$ 8,500
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PHT Aerospace LLC | Settlement | Settlement with Joint Motion to Dismiss | Show | |
U.S. Department of Transportation | Federal Aviation Administration | Sky-Med |
$ 70,000
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Sky Med | Settlement | Sky-med filed a separate EAJA application for fees and costs associated with the administrative proceeding, which the parties settled for $70,000 and the FAA paid that amount on 1/25/2021 | Show | |
U.S. Department of Justice | Executive Office for Immigration Review | Rodriguez-Vazquez v. Garland |
$ 2,000
|
Emmanuel Rodriguez-Vazquez | Rodriguez-Vazquez filed a petition for review under 8 U.S.C. 1252, arguing that the Board of Immigration Appeals had erred in dismissing his appeal as abandoned for failing to provide an address at which he could be reached. He argued that his prior attorney—who had been suspended from practice during the pendency of his appeal –had provided an incomplete address for him to the agency, leading to his appeal being dismissed for failing to provide a correct/updated address, and that this ineffective assistance was clear from the record. | We agreed to remand the case back to the Board of Immigration Appeals because, in reissuing its decision at Rodriguez-Vazquez’s request, the Board had ignored evidence in the motion to reissue that contained Rodriguez-Vazquez’s complete address and made clear that his prior attorney had omitted Rodriguez-Vazquez’s apartment number on the notice to appeal. | Show | |
U.S. Department of Justice | Executive Office of Immigration Review | Zuniga v. Barr |
$ 27,201
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Gibbs Houston Pauw, PLLC | Right to counsel | Settlement agreement | Show | |
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs | Null | Vet4U, LLC v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
$ 18,143
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Vet4U, LLC | Request for attorney fees and costs related to twenty-three claims filed under the Contract Disputes Act as CBCA 5387 for construction contract costs over and above the contract award amount. | Claim granted in part by the Board | Show | |
U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Land Management (BLM) | Friends of Animals v. BLM (Three Fingers) |
$ 56,012
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Friends of Animals, Inc. | Relates to wild horses and Oregon’s Three Fingers Herd Management Area | Court ruled for plaintiff on merits, and the parties settled the plaintiff's fees request. | Show | |
U.S. Department of the Interior | Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) | Center for Biological Diversity v. FWS |
$ 13,393
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Ryan Shannon | Relates to two separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests submitted to FWS. The agency response schedule was affected by a government shutdown. | Missed statutory deadline | Show | |
U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Land Management (BLM) | Sierra Club, et al. v. Bernhardt |
$ 238,000
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Earthjustice, Western Environmental Law Center, Environmental Law and Policy Center, and Clean Air Task Force | Relates to BLM's reconsideration of the Waste Prevention Rule and a proposed Revision Rule that would rescind certain provisions. | Not Provided | Show | |
U.S. Department of Commerce | Census Bureau (CEN) | New York Immigration Coalition, et al. v. U.S. Dept of Commerce, et al. |
$ 2,550,000
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New York Immigration Coalition; Casa de Maryland; American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; ADC Research Institute; Make The Road New York | Reinstatement of decennial census question not in accordance with law | Settlement Agreement for attorneys fees at significant discount from original fee claims with costs paid by Department of Justice | Show |