Key legal question
Whether the administrative appeal remained admissible despite the failure to pay the ordered advance of costs in time.
Extracted holding
The appeal could still be examined, because the incidental decisions on the advance fee and the refusal of fee waiver lacked instructions on remedies, so the appellant was not precluded from challenging them.
Extracted reasoning
The Court considered the appeal admissible as a matter of federal administrative law and held that the defect in the earlier incidental decisions prevented strict forfeiture of the right to contest them.