Case Name: Felipe Oteze FOWLKES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John ADAMEC, Counselor, Paul Thomas, District Manager, and Joseph F. Gibbons, Administrative Law Judge, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-01-15
Citations: 85 F. App'x 266
Docket Number: No. 03-6095
Parties: Felipe Oteze FOWLKES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John ADAMEC, Counselor, Paul Thomas, District Manager, and Joseph F. Gibbons, Administrative Law Judge, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Present: OAKES, CABRANES, Circuit Judges and MUKASEY, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 85
Pages: 266–267

Head Matter:
Felipe Oteze FOWLKES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John ADAMEC, Counselor, Paul Thomas, District Manager, and Joseph F. Gibbons, Administrative Law Judge, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 03-6095.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Jan. 15, 2004.
Felipe Oteze Fowlkes, for Appellant, pro se.
Dennis J. Canning, Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Social Security Administration (Lisa de Soto, General Counsel; Barbara L. Spivak, Chief Counsel — Region II; Joseph A. Pavone, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, on the brief), New York, NY, for Appellees.
Present: OAKES, CABRANES, Circuit Judges and MUKASEY, District Judge.
The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(1), the Clerk's Office shall appoint counsel to represent appellant in this appeal. Counsel for the parties are directed to brief the following issues:
1. Whether, under 42 U.S.C. § 1382(e)(4)(A), appellant was "fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement after conviction."
2. What standard of review applies and what standard of deference, if any, is appropriate to applicable regulations or other interpretive authority of the Social Security Administration.
3. What relief, if any, plaintiff is entitled to if this Court determines that he was not statutorily ineligible for Supplemental Security Income.
Counsel for appellant shall serve and file a brief within 40 days after the date of appointment of counsel. Counsel for appellees shall serve and file a brief within 30 days after service of the brief of appellant. Counsel for appellant may serve and file a reply brief within 14 days after service of the brief of appellee. The length of briefs is to be governed by Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.
This appeal shall be assigned, in the normal course, to a panel for hearing oral argument and rendering a decision.