Third Circuit Holds Claimants May Raise Lucia Challenges to SSA ALJs for First Time in District Court
Today the Third Circuit issued an opinion regarding application of exhaustion requirements to Lucia v. SEC, 138 S. Ct. 2044 (2018), challenges to Social Security Administration ALJs – Cirko v. Commissioner, 2020 WL 370832. Lucia decided that the SEC’s ALJs were officers of the United States, and thus that their appointments were unconstitutional because the […]