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Parties Involved:
Commissioner of Social Security
Defendant
Amir Hassan
Plaintiff

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BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

DONNA L. CALVERT

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

LYNN M. HARADA, CSBN 267616

Special Assistant United States Attorney

160 Spear Street, Suite 800

San Francisco, California 94105

Telephone: (415) 977-8977

Facsimile: (415) 744-0134

E-Mail: Lynn.Harada@ssa.gov

Attorneys for Defendant

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AMIR HASSAN,

Plaintiff,

vs.

CAROLYN W. COLVIN, 

Acting Commissioner of Social Security,

Defendant.

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Case No.: 2:13-CV-02019-CKD

STIPULATION AND PROPOSED ORDER 

APPROVING SETTLEMENT OF 

ATTORNEY FEES PURSUANT TO THE 

EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACT, 28 

U.S.C. § 2412(d), AND COSTS PURSUANT 

TO 28 U.S.C. § 1920

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

counsel, that Plaintiff’s previously filed Notice of Motion and Motion for Award of Attorney 

Fees Pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act is hereby withdrawn.

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

counsel, subject to the Court’s approval, that Plaintiff be awarded attorney fees in the amount of 

THREE THOUSAND, SIX-HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($3,600.00) under the 

Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), and costs in the amount of ZERO

DOLLARS ($0.00) 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 action, in 

accordance with 28 U.S.C. §§ 1920, 2412(d). 

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After the Court issues an order for EAJA fees to Plaintiff, the government will consider 

the matter of Plaintiff’s assignment of EAJA fees to Plaintiff’s attorney. Pursuant to Astrue v. 

Ratliff, 560 U.S. 586, 598 (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 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 Jesse S. Kaplan 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 or otherwise. 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(b), subject to the savings clause provisions of the 

EAJA.

Respectfully submitted, 

Dated: February 12, 2015 By: /s/ Lynn M. Harada for Jesse S. Kaplan* 

(As authorized by email on 2/10/15)

JESSE S. KAPLAN

Attorney for Plaintiff 

BENJAMIN B. WAGNER

United States Attorney

DONNA L. CALVERT

Regional Chief Counsel, Region IX

Social Security Administration

Dated: February 12, 2015 By: /s/ Lynn M. Harada 

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LYNN M. HARADA

Special Assistant United States Attorney

Attorneys for Defendant

ORDER

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED that Plaintiff shall be awarded 

attorney fees in the amount of THREE THOUSAND, SIX-HUNDRED DOLLARS AND ZERO 

CENTS ($3,600.00) under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d), and 

costs in the amount of ZERO DOLLARS ($0.00) under 28 U.S.C. § 1920, subject to the terms of 

the above-referenced Stipulation.

Dated: February 17, 2015 _____________________________________

CAROLYN K. DELANEY

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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