(SS) Soria v. Commissioner of Social Security

I. INTRODUCTION

16 On March 25, 2021, Denise Bourgeois Haley (“Counsel”), counsel for Plaintiff Catherine Soria (“Plaintiff”), filed a motion for an award of attorney’s fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 406(b) (“section 406(b)”). (Doc. 29.) On March 26, 2021, the Court issued a minute order requiring Plaintiff and the Commissioner to file their responses in opposition or statements of non-opposition to Counsel’s motion, if any, by no later than April 23, 2021. (Doc. 30.) Plaintiff and the Commissioner were served with copies of the motion for attorney’s fees and the minute order. (Docs. 30, 31.) The parties thereafter stipulated that the Commissioner’s response deadline would be extended to May 21, 2021. (See Doc. 33.) On May 21, 2021, the Commissioner filed a response, acknowledging that he was not a party 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 August 26, 2019). He is therefore substituted as the defendant in this action. See 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) (referring to the…