Legal Opinion
James LeMASTER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 16, 1986No. 85-3156PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Per curiam
This is an appeal from a district court judgment affirming a final decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services denying claimant LeMaster’s application for disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act. Claimant alleges that since August of 1980 he has been permanently and totally disabled because of an inability voluntarily to control alcohol intake. He also contends that if he is not found to be disabled on account of alcoholism alone, we should find him disabled based on the combination of the alcoholism with three other impairments: (1) a passive-aggressive…
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