Legal Opinion
William A. Pemberton v. Railroad Retirement Board
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 7, 1997No. 96-1911PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACHS, District Judge.
William Pemberton appeals the decision of the Railroad Retirement Board denying his application for a disability annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act. Because substantial evidence on the record as a whole supports the Board’s decision, we affirm.
I. Background
Pemberton, who was bom in 1947, worked for The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad as a brakeman/conductor and switchman from March 1971 until he suffered an on-the-job injury to his back in August 1981. A lumbar laminectomy and discectomy was performed in February 1982. Recovery was complicated by a disc space…
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