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CORNER POST, INC. v. BOARD OF GOVERNORS, FRS 

JACKSON, J., dissenting 

559 U. S. 633, 644–646 (2010) (applying fraud-specific dis-
covery rule to determine accrual).  In other words, to under-
stand when “the right of action” accrues under §2401(a), we 
must understand what the right of action is. 

A 
The right of action that is invoked in many administra-
tive-law cases, including this one, is a statutory claim that 
an agency has violated certain legal requirements when it
took a certain action, such that the agency’s action itself is
invalid.  See, e.g., 5 U. S. C. §706(2).  And Congress has re-
peatedly  made  clear,  through  various  statutory  enact-
ments, that in the administrative-law context, the statute 
of limitations for filing a claim that seeks to invalidate the 
agency action runs from the moment of final agency action.
Take the Administrative Orders Review Act (also known
as the Hobbs Act), for example.  See 28 U. S. C. §2342.  That 
statute is the exclusive mechanism for reviewing certain or-
ders issued by over a half-dozen federal agencies.  The Act 
requires suits to be brought “within 60 days after [the] en-
try” of any final agency order.  §2344.  There are many other
similar statutes.  In its brief, the Government provided us
with more than two dozen statutory provisions where the 
limitations  period  starts  running  at  the  moment  of  final
agency action—whether that action is the publication of a 
rule,  or  the  issuance  of  an  order,  or  something  else.  See 
Brief for Respondent 15–17, and n. 4.  And, as the Govern-
ment itself acknowledges, even that list is not comprehen-
sive.  See Tr. of Oral Arg. 51 (“Candidly, we got to a page-
long footnote and stopped”).5 
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5 No kidding.  On top of the dozens of examples that the Government
See,  e.g.,  5  U. S. C. 
provided,  there  are  many,  many  others. 
§7703(b)(1)(A) (“[A] petition to review a final order or final decision of the
[Merit Systems Protection] Board shall be filed . . . within 60 days after 
the Board issues notice of the final order or decision of the Board”); 15 
U. S. C. §80b–13(a) (“Any person or party aggrieved by an order issued 
by  the  [Securities  and  Exchange]  Commission  under  this  subchapter