Legal Opinion
Garcia v. Colvin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 20, 2013No. 13-2120PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff applied for social security disability benefits in 2010, when he was 40 years old. He claimed to be disabled from full-time employment because of abdominal pain caused by cirrhosis of the liver, severe thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), hepatitis C, and an umbilical hernia&emdash;ailments that had been diagnosed by several physicians that year. All of his ailments had been either caused or exacerbated by alcoholism. But he stopped drinking in 2010 and so far as appears his alcoholism is no longer a “contributing factor” barring him from obtaining…
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