NEWSOME v. SHALALA

No. 91-8917.

8 F.3d 775 (1993)

Carolyn NEWSOME, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Donna SHALALA, Secretary of The Department of Health and Human Services of The United States, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 7, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward B. Claxton, III, Jones, Hilburn, Claxton & Sanders, Dublin, GA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Henry L. Whisenhunt, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Augusta, GA, William Kanter, Michael E. Robinson, Civ. Div., Appellate Staff, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee.

Before COX, Circuit Judge, CLARK and WELLFORD, Senior Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is a Social Security case. Our holding in this case is limited to Social Security cases and to the narrow facts of this case. Eligibility for benefits were resolved in favor of the claimant, appellant Carolyn Newsome. Newsome filed an application for attorney's fees pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act ("EAJA"), 28 U.S.C. § 2412. The district court determined that the application was time barred.

We find that the...

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