Key legal question
Whether the deadline for filing the administrative federal appeal should be restored
Extracted holding
The deadline was restored because the representative had been prevented from acting by an excusable, unforeseen health impediment and filed both the appeal and the restoration request within ten days after the obstacle ceased.
Extracted reasoning
Emergency surgery, hospitalization and total incapacity to work were proven by the hospital report; this constituted an unexcused-free impediment within the meaning of the procedural rule.