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Parties Involved:
Carolyn W. Colvin
Appellee
LaVonya J. Moore
Appellant

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

For the Seventh Circuit

Chicago, Illinois 60604

Submitted May 6, 2016*

Decided May 6, 2016

Before

JOEL M. FLAUM, Circuit Judge

DANIEL A. MANION, Circuit Judge

ANN CLAIRE WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge

No. 15-2342

LaVONYA J. MOORE,

Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

CAROLYN W. COLVIN,

Acting Commissioner of Social Security

Defendant-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District 

Court for the Northern District of Indiana, 

Fort Wayne Division.

No. 1:14cv113

Andrew P. Rodovich,

Magistrate Judge.

O R D E R

LaVonya Moore applied for Disability Insurance Benefits and Supplemental

Security Income in 2011 because of pain in her knees, right shoulder, and back. This was 

Moore’s third application for benefits asserting substantially the same impairments, and 

the results were mixed. This time, an administrative law judge concluded that Moore 

was entitled to SSI as of the date of his decision, in November 2013. Moore filed an 

 

* After examining the briefs and record, we have concluded that oral argument is 

unnecessary. Thus the appeal is submitted on the briefs and record. See FED. R. APP. P.

34(a)(2)(C).

NONPRECEDENTIAL DISPOSITION

To be cited only in accordance with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1

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administrative appeal, but she challenged, not the 2013 decision, but the decision by a 

different ALJ in 2008 resolving the first of her applications for benefits. The Appeals 

Council denied review, and a magistrate judge, presiding by consent, upheld the ALJ’s

decision from 2013. See 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). The magistrate judge reasoned that it was too 

late for Moore to seek judicial review of the 2008 decision. We agree with that 

conclusion.

The 2008 decision awarded disability benefits to Moore for a limited period 

running from July 2004 to November 2005. The ALJ who issued that ruling had 

concluded that Moore resumed employment in November 2005, ending her disability 

and eligibility for benefits. Moore did not seek review of that decision.

When Moore then filed her current application for benefits in 2011, an ALJ 

initially issued a decision that was entirely unfavorable. That decision was overturned 

by the Appeals Council, and on remand the ALJ concluded that Moore was capable of 

performing unskilled, sedentary work until she turned 491⁄2 on September 15, 2013. But 

at that age, the ALJ reasoned, Moore effectively was in an age category for which the 

number of jobs she could perform was minimal, making her disabled. Moore still was 

ineligible for DIB because her date last insured had passed, see Shideler v. Astrue, 688 F.3d 

306, 312 (7th Cir. 2012); 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.315(a), 404.320(b), but going forward she will be

entitled to SSI because of her limited financial means. This partially favorable 

2013 decision should have been the focus of Moore’s request for judicial review under 

§ 405(g), but instead she argued that the ALJ who awarded limited benefits in 2008 had 

erred in finding that she was working again as of November 2005 and thus no longer 

disabled.

We agree with the magistrate judge that Moore cannot use a § 405(g) proceeding 

arising from the ALJ’s 2013 decision to raise an untimely challenge to the 2008 decision.

Moore had 60 days after that decision to request review by the Appeals Council.

See 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.968(a)(1), 416.1468(a). She did not. And if she had done so (and come 

away disappointed), she still would have had only 60 days—not several years—to seek 

judicial review. See 42 U.S.C. § 405(g); Bowen v. City of New York, 476 U.S. 467, 472, 482–83

(1986); 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.900(a)(5), 404.981, 416.1400(a)(5), 416.1481. It is far too late for 

Moore to be protesting agency action that occurred in 2008.

As best we can tell from her appellate brief, Moore is satisfied with the 2013 

decision. But even if some isolated statements in her brief could be read as criticizing that 

decision, Moore has failed to develop an argument supported by legal authority and 

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citations to the record, as required by Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 28(a)(8)(A). 

See Ball v. City of Indianapolis, 760 F.3d 636, 645 (7th Cir. 2014); Anderson v. Hardman, 

241 F.3d 544, 545 (7th Cir. 2001). Thus, no issue is before us concerning the 2013 decision.

Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

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