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Pierce Vs. Underwood

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 27, 1988

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  7. U.S. 552 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court Pierce v. Underwood
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  8. U.S. 552 (1988) Pierce v. Underwood
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  9. spectrum of litigation, and are little more than routine reasons why market rates are what they are. Pennsylvania v. Delaware
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  10. a conflict in the Courts of Appeals over important questions concerning the interpretation of the EAJA. Compare Dubose v. Pierce
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  11. successfully challenged the Secretary's decision in lawsuits filed in nine Federal District Courts. See Underwood v. Pierce
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  12. and writ of mandamus requiring the Secretary to disburse the accumulated operating subsidy fund. See Underwood v. Hills
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  13. DC 1976). We stayed the District Page 487 U. S. 556 Court's judgment pending appeal. Sub nom. Hills v. Cooperative
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  14. similarly stayed, pending appeal, one of the nine other District Court judgments against the Secretary. See Dubose v. Harris
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  15. F.R.D. 582, 584 (Conn.1979). Two of those other judgments were affirmed by Courts of Appeals, see Ross v. Community
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  16. Services, Inc., 544 F.2d 514 (CA4 1976), and Abrams v. Hills
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  17. F.2d 1062 (CA9 1976), vacated sub nom. Pierce v. Ross
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  18. consolidated the cases and granted the Secretary's petitions for writs of certiorari to review those decisions, Harris v. Ross
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  19. other Courts of Appeals have treated it as involving the first. See Battles Farm Co. v. Pierce
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  20. Dubose v. Pierce
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  21. CurtissWright Corp. v. General
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  22. Consolidated Edison Co. v. NLRB
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  23. Quaker Chair Corp. v. Litton
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  24. Reygo Pacific Corp. v. Johnston
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  25. SEC v. Musella
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  26. Smith v. Montgomery
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  27. the Ninth Circuit and the vast majority of other Courts of Appeals that have addressed this issue. See United States v. Yoffe
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  28. Citizens Council of Delaware County v. Brinegar
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  29. Anderson v. Heckler
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  30. Hanover Building Materials, Inc. v. Guiffrida
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  31. Trident Marine Construction, Inc. v. District
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  32. Ramos v. Haig
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  33. Foster v. Tourtellotte
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  34. v. 2,116 Boxes of Boned Beef, 726 F.2d 1481, 1486-1487 (CA10), cert. denied sub nom. Jarboe-Lackey Feedlots, Inc. v. United
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  35. Ashburn v. United
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  36. Report suggested. Such a reenactment, of course, generally includes the settled judicial interpretation. Lorillard v. Pons
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  37. Foley Construction Co. v. United
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  38. Broad Avenue Laundry and Tailoring v. United
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  39. than reasonableness. Spencer v. NLRB
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  40. emphasis added). Moreover, the Government argued that its position was supported by the decision in Pennsylvania v. Lynn
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  41. we affirm the Ninth Circuit's holding that the District Judge did not abuse his discretion when he found it was not. v. The
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  42. s fees award was proper. Here it is well established that the abuse-of-discretion standard applies. See Hensley v. Eckerhart
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  43. Pennsylvania v. Delaware
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  44. This issue is quite different from the question of contingent fee enhancement that we faced last Term in Pennsylvania v. Delaware
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  45. it would have expected review de novo, rather than review for abuse of discretion. See, e.g., Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno
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  46. Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. General
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  47. which is the sort of issue presented here, to be given abuse-of-discretion review. See, e.g., Hensley v. Eckerhart
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  48. National Hockey League v. Metropolitan
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  49. a standard higher than mere reasonableness, and the Sixth Circuit is considering the question en banc. See Riddle v. Secretary
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  50. Lee v. Johnson
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