Social Security News

     From the syllabus of the just announced Supreme Court opinion in Carr v. Saul : Held : The Courts of Appeals erred in imposing an issue...

     The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments at 10:00 today in two cases that present the issue of when a Social Security clai...

      The Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for Carr v. Saul and Davis v. Saul for March 3. The issue presented by these cases i...

      The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Carr v. Saul and Davis v. Saul , two cases presenting the issue of whether the federal courts c...

      In June of 2018 the Supreme Court held in Lucia v. SEC that Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) as of that date were unconstitutional be...

     I've been wondering about a couple of things. First, what is happening in Puerto Rico (and other U.S. territories) when claiman...

     Reuters reports that Raymond Lucia of Lucia v. SEC fame has settled his case with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  In the Luc...

     From Regulating Impartiality In Agency Adjudication by Kent Barnett, 69 Duke L.J.1695-1748 (2020): ... [T]he majorities in Luc...

     After the Supreme Court held in Lucia v. SEC that Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) as then appointed were unconstitutional, there wa...

     Andrew Saul was sworn in as Commissioner of Social Security on June 17. A few days later I posted a list of issues on Saul's doc...

     See below for an order from the Appeals Council concerning a case where an objection had been made to the consideration of the case b...

     I posted on April 8 about the first Appeals Council remand that I had heard of referring to Lucia v. SEC , the Supreme Court case th...

     I have received the first report of a case remanded by Social Security's Appeals Council on account of the Supreme Court decision...

      I’ve already heard some colleagues say that the new Social Security Ruling  giving the agency’s response to the Supreme Court opinio...

 The Social Security Administration is publishing a new Ruling concerning the effects of the Supreme Court opinion in Lucia v. SEC . I ha...

     Since the Supreme Court's decision in Lucia v. SEC that Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) as they had been appointed to that time...

     The Securities and Exchange Commission is remanding all cases pending before the full Commission for new hearings before different A...

     From the Joint Explanatory Statement (page 67) of the Conference Committee on the bill to fund the Social Security Administration (a...

     From a revised version of Social Security's Emergency Message EM-18003 on Important Information Regarding Possible Challenges to ...

     Because of President Trump's Executive Order , Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) will no longer be appointed through a process con...