(SS) Pallesi v. Commissioner of Social Security

I. INTRODUCTION

16 On July 1, 2020, counsel for Plaintiff Angelic Renee Pallesi filed a motion for an award of attorney’s fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 406(b). (Doc. 40.) On July 2, 2020, the Court issued a minute order requiring Plaintiff and the Commissioner to file their responses in opposition or statements of non-opposition to Plaintiff’s counsel’s motion, if any, by no later than July 22, 2020. (Doc. 41.) Plaintiff and the Commissioner were served with copies of the motion for attorney’s fees and the minute order. (Docs. 41, 42.) On July 15, 2020, the Commissioner filed a response taking no position on Plaintiff’s motion, noting that “the Commissioner’s role in this matter is one ‘resembling that of a trustee for the claimants’” and providing an “analysis of the fee request.” (Doc. 43.) Plaintiff did not file any 26 On June 17, 2019, Andrew Saul became the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. See https://www.ssa.gov/agency/commissioner.html (last visited by the court on September 13, 2019). He is therefore substituted as the defendant in this action. See 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) (referring…