Mealey's (September 12, 2018, 12:30 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An amicus curiae appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court says in a Sept. 6 brief that an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling upholding an attorney’s award of an aggregate 25 percent of a woman’s past-due Social Security benefits should be affirmed because reading Section 406 of the Social Security Act of 1935 (SSA) to permit the recovery of additional attorney fees “would lead to absurd results” (Richard A. Culbertson v. Nancy A. Berryhill, No. 17-773, U.S. Sup.)....