Bowen v. City of New York
- Decided
- June 2, 1986
- Docket
- 84-1923
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
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What later courts said
- holding that a failure to exhaust administrative remedies may be excused when the claimant faces a danger of irreparable harm from the administrative process — Bruns v. Municipality of Anchorage, Anchorage Water & Wastewater Utility (2001)
- concluding that, for claimants for whom expiration of the 60-day period barred further access to the administrative appeals process, "exhaustion is excused for the same reasons requiring tolling of the statute of limitations" — Dixon v. Shalala (1995)
- concluding that the 60-day time period is not jurisdictional but is instead a statute of limitations that operates as a waiver of sovereign immunity — Victoria L. Williams v. Commissioner, Social Security Administration (2016)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
[*469] Justice Powell delivered the opinion of the Court.
This class action was brought pursuant to 42 U. S. C. § 405(g) challenging an internal policy of the Secretary of Health and Human Services that had the effect of denying disability benefits to numerous claimants who may have been entitled to them. The issues presented are whether the District Court correctly included within the class (i) claimants who had received a final decision on their individual claims for benefits more than 60 days prior to the filing of this action, and (ii) other claimants who had not exhausted their administrative remedies.
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Bowen v. City of New York, 476 U.S. 467 (1986)Read the full opinion
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