Legal Opinion
Bauer v. Astrue
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 8, 2008No. 07-3325PublishedCited by 323 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff challenges the Social Security Administration’s denial (upheld by the district court) of disability benefits. She claims to be disabled by virtue of having the psychiatric illness that is nowadays called “bipolar disorder”; the older and more descriptive term is manic-depressive illness. A person suffering from the disorder has violent mood swings, the extremes of which are mania — a state of high excitement in which he loses contact with reality and exhibits bizarre behavior — and clinical depression, in which he has great difficulty sleeping or…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Donna J. Clifford v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social SecurityCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
- David Bowen v. Commissioner of Social SecurityCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2007
- Joanne Barnett v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social SecurityCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004
- George WASHINGTON, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Donna SHALALA, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1994
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3Cited by323 opinions
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- Scott v. AstrueCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2011
- White v. Commissioner of Social SecurityCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2009
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