United States First Circuit

An Appeals Council refusal to review an Administrative Law Judge's decision may be reviewable by appellate court where the Appeals Council gives an egregiously mistaken ground for the action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/22/2001
• Published 03/22/2001

Judges

• BOUDIN, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, STAHL and LYNCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Francis M. Jackson with whom Jackson & MacNichol was on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Fox, Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of the Chief Counsel, Region I, Social Security Administration, with whom Jay P. McCloskey, United States Attorney, James M. Moore, Assistant United States Attorney, and Robert J. Triba, Chief Counsel, Region I, were on brief for appellee.