Alam Ganem v. Margaret Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services

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• holding that the “[Social Security] Act does not preclude the exercise of mandamus jurisdiction”
• holding that the “[Social Security] Act does not preclude the exercise of mandamus jurisdiction”
• finding that § 405(h) does not affect mandamus jurisdiction under § 1361 because if it did, the illogical result would follow that § 405(h
• noting that absence of § 1361 was unrelated to codification error because even in original version of § 405(h), § 24 of the Judicial Code did not include District of Columbia’s common law jurisdiction to issue mandamus writs
• “[T]he changes made by the codifiers, whose choice, made without the approval of Congress[,] should be given no weight, are of no substantive moment.”
• “[T]he changes made by the codifiers, whose ‘choice, made * * * without approval of Congress * * * should be given no weight,’ 115 are of no substantive moment.”

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