Legal Opinion
Sahara Coal Company v. Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor and Floyd McNew
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 24, 1991No. 90-3660PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
McNew, a former coal miner, first applied for benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act, 30 U.S.C. §§ 901 et seq., in 1980. A deputy commissioner in the Labor Department’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs denied McNew’s application in March of 1981. McNew had sixty days within which to request a hearing before an administrative law judge, at the end of which time his claim would be deemed abandoned unless he had either requested a hearing or submitted new evidence. 20 C.F.R. § 410(c)(1). McNew did neither. Instead he waited six months and then requested a…
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