Supreme Court upholds use of attorney's fees to offset debt to government

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] unanimously in Astrue v. Ratliff [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] that an award of attorney's fees and expenses under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) [28 USC § 2412] is payable to the prevailing party rather than to the party...

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