Steven Capitani v. Jo Anne Barnhart
- Proceeding
- appeal
- Trial court
- United States District Court for the Southern District of California
- Trial judge
- John A. Houston (district judge)
- Outcome
- affirmed — AFFIRMED.
- Area
- civil
Analysis
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Opinion
FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION JUN 17 2011
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
STEVEN LEE CAPITANI, No. 09-57015 Plaintiff - Appellant, D.C. No. 3:07-cv-00266-JAH-AJB v. MEMORANDUM * MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, Commissioner of Social Security Administration, Defendant - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California John A. Houston, District Judge, Presiding Submitted June 9, 2011 ** Pasadena, California Before: KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, IKUTA, Circuit Judge and PIERSOL, District Judge.*** * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). *** The Honorable Lawrence L. Piersol, Senior United States District Judge for the District of South Dakota, sitting by designation. page 2 The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Capitani’s attorney’s late-filed application for attorney’s fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act because her reasons for missing the deadline amounted to “a garden variety claim of excusable neglect.” Irwin v. Dep’t of Veterans Affairs, 498 U.S.
89, 96 (1990); see Le v. Astrue, 529 F.3d 1200, 1201 (9th Cir. 2008); see also Modrowski v. Mote, 322 F.3d 965, 968–69 (7th Cir. 2003).
AFFIRMED.