Legal Opinion
William C. Epps v. Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 25, 1980No. 78-2621PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
Fifty-two-year-old William C. Epps has been diagnosed by several physicians as suffering from, among other ailments, diabetes myelitis, gout, osteoarthritis and degenerative disc disease of the lumbar and cervical spine, obesity, costochondritis (chest wall pain), and hypertension. After serving in the military for 22 years, working during his last ten years in the air force first as a mechanical engineer and then as a supervisor of mechanical operations and records clerk, Epps was retired on September 11, 1974, for medical disability. 1 On October 1, 1975, Epps expressed…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Richardson v. PeralesSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Consolidated Edison Co. v. National Labor Relations BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Thomas E. Depaepe, Sr. v. Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary, Health, Education and WelfareCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- Emett D. Simmons, Sr. v. Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Health, Education and WelfareCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- Howard Y. Fortenberry v. Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Health and Human ResourcesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
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3Cited by107 opinions
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- Newton v. ApfelCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2000
- Carol A. HOLLIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1988
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