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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 7 INNOVA SOLUTIONS, INC., Case No. 17-cv-03674-VKD

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

DENYING IN PART INNOVA

v. SOLUTIONS INC.’S MOTION FOR

FEES AND COSTS PURSUANT TO

THE EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE

DONNA P. CAMPAGNOLO, ACT, 28 U.S.C. § 2412

12 Defendant. Re: Dkt. No. 88

I. BACKGROUND In this action, Innova Solutions, Inc. (“Innova”) challenged the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (“USCIS”) decision denying Innova’s I-129 Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker seeking an H-1B visa for its intended beneficiary, Dilip Dodda. On August 8, 2019, this Court denied Innova’s motion for summary judgment and granted USCIS’s motion for summary judgment. Innova appealed, and the Ninth Circuit reversed. Having prevailed before the Ninth Circuit, Innova now moves this Court for an award of $148,625 in attorneys’ fees and $1,580.34…