Topic: special circumstances make an award unjust. · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 6 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Wallis D. CORNELLA, Appellant, v. Richard SCHWEIKER, Secretary, Health & Human Services, Appellee.

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1 Wallis D. CORNELLA, Appellant, v. Richard SCHWEIKER, Secretary, Health & Human Services, Appellee Anchor
ca8 · 1984
green “special circumstances make an award unjust.” 3
2 Mary J. HUETT, Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health & Human Services, Appellee
ca8 · 1989
green “once a party establishes that he or she was a prevailing party, the burden shifts to the government to prove that it was substantially justified in asserting its position.” 3

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