Supreme Court· 1/31/1938
Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.
Citations
- 303 U.S. 41
- 58 S. Ct. 459
- 82 L. Ed. 638
- 1938 U.S. LEXIS 361
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- explaining that a federal lawsuit may not be used to pre-empt administrative action
- noting “the long settled rule of judicial administration that no one is entitled to judicial relief for a supposed or threatened injury until the prescribed administrative remedy has been exhausted”
- rule requiring exhaustion of the administrative remedy cannot be circumvented by asserting that the holding of the prescribed administrative hearing would result in irreparable damage
- “Obviously, the rule requiring exhaustion of the administrative remedy cannot be circumvented by asserting . . . that the mere holding of the prescribed administrative hearing would result in irreparable damage.”
- describing exhaustion as a “rule of judicial administration”
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Judges: Brandeis
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