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Cite as:  603 U. S. ____ (2024) 

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JACKSON, J., dissenting 

Despite the dozens of statutes that start the limitations 
period at the moment of final agency action, neither Corner 
Post nor the majority identifies a single statute in the ad-
ministrative-law context—either now or before 1948—that 
takes any other approach.  This tells us exactly the message 
that Congress might have expected courts to infer when in-
terpreting  §2401(a):  For  administrative-law  actions,  a 
claim accrues at the moment of final agency action. 

The Court says we must ignore these other statutes be-
cause  they  post-date  Congress’s  1948  enactment  of 
§2401(a).  See  ante,  at  12–14.  The  majority’s  reasoning is 
doubly wrong.  First, it is wrong on the facts.  Even before 
1948,  Congress  consistently  started  limitations  periods  in
the  administrative-law  context  at  the  moment  of  the  last 

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may obtain a review of such order . . . by filing . . . within sixty days after 
the entry of such order, a written petition”); 30 U. S. C. §1276(a)(2) (“Any
[covered]  order  or  decision  . . .  shall  be  subject  to  judicial  review  on  or 
before  30  days  from  the  date  of  such  order  or  decision”);  38  U. S. C. 
§7266(a) (“[T]o obtain review . . . of a final decision of the Board of Vet-
erans’ Appeals, a person adversely affected by such decision shall file a 
notice of appeal with the Court within 120 days after the date on which 
notice  of  the  decision  is  issued”);  42  U. S. C.  §405(g)  (“Any  individual,
after any final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security made after 
a hearing to which he was a party . . . may obtain a review of such deci-
sion by a civil action commenced within sixty days after the mailing to
him of notice of such decision”); §1395oo(f )(1) (“Providers shall have the
right to obtain judicial review of any final decision of the [Provider Re-
imbursement Review] Board . . . by a civil action commenced within 60 
days of the date on which notice of any final decision by the Board . . . is 
received”);  §7607(b)(1)  (“Any  petition  for  review  under  this  subsection 
shall be filed within sixty days from the date notice of such promulgation,
approval, or action appears in the Federal Register, except that if such 
petition is based solely on grounds arising after such sixtieth day, then 
any petition for review under this subsection shall be filed within sixty
days after such grounds arise”); 49 U. S. C. §1153(b)(1) (petitions seeking
review of National Transportation Safety Board orders that relate to avi-
ation  matters  “must  be  filed  not  later  than  60  days  after  the  order  is 
issued”).