Legal Opinion
Tina Kangail v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 14, 2006No. 05-3674PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff contests the denial of social security disability benefits that she sought because she is manic depressive (“bipolar,” in the current jargon) and disabled by her mental illness from holding gainful employment. Age 36 at the time of her hearing before the administrative law judge, she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder more than a decade earlier; a psychiatrist had noted a “severe depressive quality to her life, interrupted by manic episodes of moderate to severe intensity.” She also has a history of alcohol and drug abuse (cocaine), however, and if…
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