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Parties Involved:
Commissioner of Social Security
Defendant
Randolph Franklin Fatheree
Plaintiff

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Shellie Lott, SBN: 246202 

Cerney Kreuze & Lott, LLP

42 N. Sutter Street, Suite 400

Stockton, California 95202

Telephone: (209) 948-9384

Facsimile: (209) 948-0706

Attorney for Plaintiff

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RANDOLPH FRANKLIN FATHEREE, 

Plaintiff,

v.

CAROLYN W. COLVIN,

Acting Commissioner of Social Security

Defendants.

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Case No. 1:13-cv-01577-SKO

STIPULATION AND ORDER FOR THE 

AWARD OF ATTORNEY’S FEES 

PURSUANT TO THE EQUAL ACCESS 

TO JUSTICE ACT, 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d) 

AND COSTS

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

counsel, subject to the approval of the Court, that Plaintiff be awarded attorney fees under the 

EAJA in the amount of FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS 

($5,600.00) and COSTS in the amount of FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE AND TWENTYFOUR CENTS ($425.24). This amount represents compensation for all legal services rendered on 

behalf of Plaintiff, to date, by counsel in connection with this civil action, in accordance with 

28 U.S.C. § 2412.

After the Court issues an order for EAJA fees and expenses to Plaintiff, the government 

will consider the matter of Plaintiff's assignment of EAJA fees and expenses to Plaintiff’s 

attorney. Pursuant to Astrue v. Ratliff, 130 S.Ct. 2521 (2010), the ability to honor the assignment 

will depend on whether the fees and expenses are subject to any offset allowed under the United 

States Department of the Treasury's Offset Program. After the order for EAJA fees and expenses

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is entered, the government will determine whether they are subject to any offset.

Fees and expenses shall be made payable to Plaintiff, but if the Department of the Treasury 

determines that Plaintiff does not owe a federal debt, then the government shall cause the payment 

of fees, expenses and costs to be made directly to Shellie Lott, pursuant to the assignment 

executed by Plaintiff. Any payments made shall be delivered to Plaintiff’s counsel.

This stipulation constitutes a compromise settlement of Plaintiff’s request for EAJA 

attorney fees and expenses, and does not constitute an admission of liability on the part of 

Defendant under the EAJA. Payment of the agreed amount shall constitute a complete release 

from, and bar to, any and all claims that Plaintiff and/or Plaintiff’s counsel may have relating to 

EAJA attorney fees and expenses in connection with this action.

This award is without prejudice to the rights of Plaintiff’s counsel to seek Social Security 

Act attorney fees under 42 U.S.C. § 406, subject to the offset provisions of the EAJA.

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: June 11, 2015 /s/ Shellie Lott 

SHELLIE LOTT

Attorney for Plaintiff

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

DONNA L. CALVERT

Regional Chief Counsel

Date: June 11, 2015 /s/ Jean Turk 

JEAN TURK (As authorized via email on 6/11/15) 

Special Assistant United States Attorney

ORDER

Pursuant to the parties’ Stipulation, it is so ordered.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 26, 2015 /s/ Sheila K. Oberto 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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