Berryhill

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 BOBBIE JANE SMITH, Case No. 18-cv-00887-VKD

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S

v. COUNSEL’S MOTION FOR

ATTORNEYS’ FEES

NANCY A. BERRYHILL, Re: Dkt. No. 36 Defendant.

13 Plaintiff's counsel, Robert C. Weems, moves for attorneys’ fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 406(b) for representing plaintiff Bobbie Jane Smith in her appeal of the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration’s (“the Commissioner”) denial of Social Security benefits. Dkt. No. 36. The Commissioner “takes no position” on the reasonableness of Mr. Weems’s request for fees. Dkt. No. 37. After consideration of Mr. Weems’s motion and the relevant legal authority, the Court determines that oral argument is unnecessary, Civ. L.R. 7-1(b), and grants the motion for attorneys’ fees pursuant to § 406(b). I. BACKGROUND This case stems from Ms. Smith’s appeal of the Social Security Administration’s (“the …