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Nature of Suit Code: 864
Nature of Suit: Social Security - SSID Title XVI
Cause of Action: 42:205 Denial Social Security Benefits

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Lawrence D. Rohlfing

Attorney at Law: 119433

Law Offices of Lawrence D. Rohlfing

12631 East Imperial Highway, Suite C-115

Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

Tel.: (562)868-5886

Fax: (562)868-8868

E-mail: rohlfing.office@rohlfinglaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Rene Raul Martinez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RENE RAUL MARTINEZ,

Plaintiff,

vs.

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting

Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant.

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Case No.: 1:14-cv-00385-SKO

STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR 

THE AWARD AND PAYMENT OF 

ATTORNEY FEES AND EXPENSES

PURSUANT TO THE EQUAL 

ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACT, 28 U.S.C. 

§ 2412(d) AND COSTS PURSUANT 

TO 28 U.S.C. § 1920

TO THE HONORABLE SHEILA K. OBERTO, MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

OF THE DISTRICT COURT:

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED, by and between the parties through their 

undersigned counsel, subject to the approval of the Court, that Rene Raul Martinez

be awarded attorney fees and expenses in the amount of eight thousand five 

hundred dollars ($8,500.00) under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 28 

U.S.C. § 2412(d), and no additional costs other than those taxed by the Ninth 

Circuit under 28 U.S.C. § 1920. This amount represents compensation for all legal 

services rendered on behalf of Plaintiff by counsel in connection with this civil 

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action and appellate action No. 15-16691, in accordance with 28 U.S.C. §§ 1920; 

2412(d). 

After the Court issues an order for EAJA fees to Rene Raul Martinez, the 

government will consider the matter of Rene Raul Martinez's assignment of EAJA 

fees to Lawrence D. Rohlfing. The retainer agreement containing the assignment 

is attached as exhibit 1. Pursuant to Astrue v. Ratliff, 130 S.Ct. 2521, 2529 (2010), 

the ability to honor the assignment will depend on whether the fees are subject to 

any offset allowed under the United States Department of the Treasury's Offset 

Program. After the order for EAJA fees is entered, the government will determine 

whether they are subject to any offset.

Fees shall be made payable to Rene Raul Martinez, but if the Department of 

the Treasury determines that Rene Raul Martinez does not owe a federal debt, then 

the government shall cause the payment of fees, expenses and costs to be made 

directly to Law Offices of Lawrence D. Rohlfing, pursuant to the assignment 

executed by Rene Raul Martinez.

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 Any payments made shall be delivered to 

Lawrence D. Rohlfing.

This stipulation constitutes a compromise settlement of Rene Raul 

Martinez's request for EAJA attorney fees, and does not constitute an admission of 

liability on the part of Defendant under the EAJA or otherwise. Payment of the 

agreed amount shall constitute a complete release from, and bar to, any and all 

claims that Rene Raul Martinez and/or Lawrence D. Rohlfing including Law 

Offices of Lawrence D. Rohlfing may have relating to EAJA attorney fees in 

connection with this action and appellate action No. 15-16691. 

 

1 The parties do not stipulate whether counsel for the plaintiff has a cognizable lien under federal law against the 

recovery of EAJA fees that survives the Treasury Offset Program. 

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This award is without prejudice to the rights of Lawrence D. Rohlfing and/or

the Law Offices of Lawrence D. Rohlfing to seek Social Security Act attorney fees 

under 42 U.S.C. § 406(b), subject to the savings clause provisions of the EAJA.

DATE: August 16, 2016 Respectfully submitted,

 LAW OFFICES OF LAWRENCE D. ROHLFING

/s/ Lawrence D. Rohlfing

 BY: __________________

 Lawrence D. Rohlfing

 Attorney for plaintiff Rene Raul Martinez

DATED: August 30, 2016 PHILLIP A. TALBERT

Acting United States Attorney

/s/ Jennifer Lee Tarn

 

 JENNIFER LEE TARN

 Special Assistant United States Attorney 

 Attorneys for Defendant Carolyn W. Colvin, 

Acting Commissioner of Social Security 

 (Per e-mail authorization)

ORDER

Based upon the above “Stipulation for the Award and Payment of Attorney 

Fees and Expenses Pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act, 28 U.S.C. § 

2412(d) and Costs Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1920” (Doc. 28), IT IS ORDERED that 

fees and expenses in the amount of eight thousand five hundred dollars ($8,500.00) 

under EAJA, 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), and no additional costs other than those taxed 

by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit under 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1920, be awarded subject to the terms of the above Stipulation.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

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Dated: September 7, 2016 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto .

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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