Nash v. Bowen

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that, under 5 U.S.C. § 557(b), the agency “retains ‘all the powers which it would have in making the initial decision’”
• approving of efficiency goals because “the decisional independence of ALJs was not in any way usurped by . . . monthly production goals”
• a Social Security Administration (SSA) “ALJ is a creature of statute and, as such, is 9 subordinate to the [petitioner head] in matters of policy and interpretation of law”
• a Social Security Administration (SSA) “ALJ is a creature of statute and, as such, is 9 subordinate to the [petitioner head] in matters of policy and interpretation of law”
• agency used reversal rates not “to influence ALJs into deciding more cases in favor of the agency” but “as a benchmark in deciding whether there might be problems in the adjudicatory methods of particularly high (or low) reversal rate ALJs”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).