Feliciano Santiago v. Supermercado Guaynia, Inc.

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• concluding that reconsideration must occur “before an appeal has been taken or other rights vested”
• holding that a timely request for reconsideration of a military correction board decision “suspended the finality of the Board’s 1956 order, and limitations did not begin to run until the Board’s final decision in 1958”
• noting the difference between reasonable requests for reconsideration and requests that occur “a considerable time after the earlier decision”
• ”[0]nce there is a final Board decision, a subsequent administrative hearing or determination does not deprive the earlier decision of finality, toll the running of limitations, or commence a new limitations period.”
• “[Ujnless there is legislation to the contrary it is the inherent right of every tribunal to reconsider, its own decisions within a short period after the making of the decision and before an appeal has been taken or other rights vested.”
• “[U]nless there is legislation to the contrary it is the inherent right of every tribunal to reconsider its own decisions within a short pe- riod after the making of the decision and before an appeal has been taken or other rights vested.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).