The word came out this afternoon that Social Security will not ask the Supreme Court to review Hicks v. Commissioner, the 6th Circuit opinion holding that Social Security's treatment of Eric Conn's former clients to have been unconstitutional.
I have no idea where things will go from here with these cases. Unless the agency wants to give up, I predict continuing litigation.
Odd...there's already an active docket at the supreme court. 18A1319. Are they backing out?
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4:40, SSA asked SCOTUS for an extension to decide whether to request cert (and they got the extension). My guess is that was enough reason for SCOTUS to create a docket, so they had some place to file the extension request and response to it.
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ReplyDeleteI got that, I was just curious if we should expect to see some filing saying they do not intend to appeal. Then again, maybe just letting the extended deadline would be good enough.
What happened to the hardliners at SSA who cooked up the scheme? Did Bea Disman, et al., finally retire?
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