Legal Opinion
Henry Green v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 22, 2000No. 99-1878PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from a district court decision refusing to set aside the denial by the Social Security Administration of disability benefits sought by Henry Green. Mr. Green, 51 years old at the time of his hearing before an administrative law judge, is a functionally illiterate former factory worker who claims to have become totally disabled in 1993; it is conceded that Green must have become totally disabled by the end of that year in order to qualify for the benefits that he is seeking.
Green has long suffered from emphysema, and in 1993 underwent a major operation on…
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- Jerome F. NABER, Appellant, v. Donna E. SHALALA, Secretary of Health and Human Services, AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
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3Cited by125 opinions
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