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183422P.pdf 06/26/2020 John Davis v. Andrew Saul
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-3422
and No: 18-3451
and No: 18-3452
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Social Security. Appellants, unsuccessful applicants for
social security benefits in 2013 or 2014, brought actions in the district
court contending the ALJs who denied their applications for benefits wwer
not properly appointed in accordance with the Appointments Clause of the
Constitution, Art. II, Sec. 2, cl. 2; none of the claimants raised this
argument during the proceedings before the Social Security Administration,
and the district court ruled that the claimants waived the argument by
failing to raise it before the agency. Held: the district court properly
declined to consider the issue; this is not one of the rare situations in
which a federal court should consider an issue not presented to the
agency.