Legal Opinion
Berry v. Astrue
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 22, 2010No. 09-35421PublishedCited by 382 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FISHER, Circuit Judge:
In September 2005, Daniel Berry, a military veteran and former commercial courier driver born in 1959, filed a claim for disability insurance benefits under 42 U.S.C. § 423 and supplemental security income benefits under 42 U.S.C. § 1382. His claim was denied upon a finding that he could return to his past relevant work and therefore was not disabled. That finding was based in part on the conclusion that whether Berry could pass a drug test was irrelevant to the determination of disability, even if Berry could prove that he needed to be able to pass such a test to…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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3Cited by382 opinions
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