Yvonne WONG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that allowing equitable tolling “on grounds of poor health would thoroughly undermine Section [405(g)’s] sixty-day limitation”
• equitable tolling denied even though claimant for social security disability benefits asserted that illness prevented her from timely filing an action in federal district court
• equitable tolling denied even though claimant for social security disability benefits asserted that illness prevented her from timely filing an action in federal district court
• equitable tolling denied even though claimant for social security disability benefits asserted that illness prevented her from timely filing an action in federal -4- district court
• “Equitable tolling thus far has 20 been allowed only in those cases where the government has hindered a claimant’s attempts to 21 exercise her rights by acting in a misleading or clandestine way.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).