Court Opinion

ID: 9556464
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-17 15:00:54.892304+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:21:27.214500
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Case: 23-1445    Document: 12      Page: 1    Filed: 08/17/2023

            NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

   United States Court of Appeals
       for the Federal Circuit
                   ______________________

                 MARCOS GREENIDGE,
                   Claimant-Appellant

                              v.

   DENIS MCDONOUGH, Secretary of Veterans Af-
                     fairs,
              Respondent-Appellee
             ______________________

                         2023-1445
                   ______________________

    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
 Veterans Claims in No. 20-7820, Judge Joseph L. Toth.
                 ______________________

                       ON MOTION
                   ______________________

      Before CHEN, MAYER, and STOLL, Circuit Judges.
 PER CURIAM.
                         ORDER
     The Secretary of Veterans Affairs moves unopposed
 for remand to allow the United States Court of Appeals
 for Veterans Claims the opportunity to “address the
 effects, if any, of Halpern[ v. Principi, 313 F.3d 1364 (Fed.
 Cir. 2002),] and other relevant binding precedent on [the]
Case: 23-1445      Document: 12    Page: 2     Filed: 08/17/2023

 2                                 GREENIDGE v. MCDONOUGH

 decision, and, if appropriate, to address in the first in-
 stance whether [Marcos] Greenidge qualifies as a prevail-
 ing party for the purposes of EAJA.” Mot. at 5.
     Upon consideration thereof,
     IT IS ORDERED THAT:
     (1) The motion is granted to the extent that the case
 is remanded to the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
 to reconsider its decision in light of the arguments and
 precedent raised in the motion and this order.
     (2) Each side shall bear its own costs.
                                        FOR THE COURT

 August 17, 2023                        /s/ Jarrett B. Perlow
    Date                                Jarrett B. Perlow
                                        Clerk of Court

 ISSUED AS A MANDATE: August 17, 2023