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CROSBY v. SOCIAL SEC. ADMIN. OF UNITED STATES

No. 85-1863.

796 F.2d 576 (1986)

Carol A. CROSBY, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION OF the UNITED STATES, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan S. Berck with whom Paul R. Collier, III, Boston, Mass., Lisa R. Sockett, Veronica M. Dougherty and Vilna M. Waldron, Harvard Legal Bureau, were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

John S. Koppel, Appellate Staff, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, with whom Richard K. Willard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., William F. Weld, U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., and John F. Cordes, Appellate Staff, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Circuit Judge, BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissing their class action claim in light of Heckler v. Day, 467 U.S. 104, 104 S.Ct. 2249, 81 L.Ed.2d 88 (1984). We agree that Day precludes class-wide relief in this case and thus affirm.

Plaintiffs-appellants filed their class action claim in 1981, claiming that unreasonable delays by...

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