Comparing Social Security administrative law judges to “a worker on a poultry processing assembly line,” a federal appeals court panel on Friday said overworked ALJs have no viable grievance under the Administrative Procedure Act.
The Association of Administrative Law Judges sued the head of the Social Security Administration in Chicago federal court, objecting to a 2007 directive that instructed the ALJs to issue at least 500 decisions a year. At the time, more than half of the 1,400 judges were not meeting this goal, and the backlog of disability cases had grown.
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