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Nature of Suit Code: 863
Nature of Suit: Social Security - DIWC/DIWW (405(g))
Cause of Action: 

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FILED 

United States Court of Appeals 

T~mh Circuit 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

OCT 2 6 1990 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

WENDELL W. GRISWOLD, ) 

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Plaintiff-Appellant, ) 

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vs. ) 

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OTIS R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of ) 

Health and Human Services, ) 

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Defendant-Appellee. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

No. 90-5088 

(D.C. No. 89-C-120-B) 

(N .D. Okla.) 

Before ANDERSON, BALDOCK and EBEL, Circuit Judges.** 

Plaintiff-appellant Wendell Griswold appeals prose from the 

district court's dismissal of his action seeking to reopen his 

1970 application for disability benefits. The district court 

found that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction to review the 

Secretary's decision not to reopen Griswold's benefits application 

and granted the Secretary's motion to dismiss. 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppal. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

** After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. The cause therefore is ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

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Griswold's appeal is wholly controlled by our recent holding 

in Dozier v. Bowen, 891 F.2d 769 (10th Cir. 1989). In that case, 

we held that the Secretary's discretionary decision to reopen a 

benefits determination case after the elapse of the sixty day 

statutory period is not subject to judicial review. Id. at 771; 

see 42 u.s.c. §§ 405(g) & (h); Califano v. Sanders, 430 U.S. 99, 

107-08 (1977). Having reviewed the record and briefs filed in 

connection with this appeal, we are persuaded that the district 

court correctly dismissed Griswold's action for lack of subject 

matter jurisdiction. 

AFFIRMED. 

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Entered for the Court 

Bobby R. Baldock 

Circuit Judge 

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