Wendell Phillips v. Anthony J. Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare of the United States of America

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff filed a petition for establishment of a period of disability and for disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act. His application was heard before a Hearing Examiner who heard testimony only from the plaintiff-appellant, but also received a variety of exhibits, particularly of medical reports from various doctors, bearing on the state of appellant’s health.

The Hearing Examiner denied plaintiff’s application, and after consideration by the Appeals Council, the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare adopted the Hearing…