Legal Opinion
Annie WINGO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 19, 1988No. 88-4156PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
Annie Wingo challenges the denial of social security disability benefits by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“Secretary”). Because we find that the denial of benefits was not based on substantial evidence, we reverse the district court’s decision and remand the case for further administrative hearings consistent with this opinion.
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In 1977, Annie Wingo, a thirty-two-year-old female with an eleventh-grade education, was forced to quit her job because of problems from hyperkeratosis, an inherited, chronic skin affliction which causes painful growths on…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Frances Hames v. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- L.B. LOVELACE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1987
- Mary Strickland v. Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Health and Human ResourcesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Beverly Fields v. Otis R. Bowen, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, DefendantCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- Betty J. Dellolio v. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
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3Cited by30 opinions
- Elizabeth Anthony v. Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Secretary Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1992
- Frank v. BarnhartCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2003
- Genier v. AstrueCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2008
- Watson v. BarnhartCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2002
- Randall v. AstrueCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2009
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