Legal Opinion
Thomas Eads, Jr. v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 11, 1993No. 92-1247PublishedCited by 169 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The district court affirmed the denial of social security disability benefits to Thomas Eads, who appeals. Eads suffers from poorly controlled diabetes, aggravated by extreme obesity. He claims that he cannot work because he must elevate his legs for several hours during every eight-hour period. The record before the administrative law judge contained no medical evidence directly supporting the claim, and the administrative law judge did not believe Eads’s testimony. Ordinarily this would be the end of the case. But in support of a request that the Appeals Council of the…
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