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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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