Opinion ID: 491631
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: First Accrual of Appellant's Cause of Action

Text: 35 Resolution of this case, then, turns on whether appellant, unlike Dettmann, constructively exhausted his administrative remedies some time before the OPIA disposed of his administrative appeal. He clearly did. 36 Despite the fact that appellant's September 21 request was labeled BY HAND, Joint Appendix (J.A.) at 13, the District Court gave him the benefit of the doubt, assuming a one-week mailing period. See 643 F.Supp. at 701 n. 1. Thus, the FBI's New York Office had, at the very latest, until October 13 (10 working days after assumed receipt of the request) to make the determination required by Sec. 522(a)(6)(A)(i). 9 Since it failed to do so, appellant's cause of action first accrued, at the very latest, in October 1977, more than seven years and nine months before appellant filed this suit. 37