Legal Opinion
Hung NGUYEN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Defendant, Appellee
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 26, 1999No. 98-1302PublishedCited by 1,277 opinions
1Per curiam
Claimant Nguyen applied for social security disability benefits after injuring his back at work in January, 1993. Following a March, 1995 hearing, an administrative law judge (ALJ) found that although claimant’s severe lumbar and cervical disc-disease prevented him from returning to his vocation of welder-carpenter, he retained the functional capacity for sedentary work and exhibited no significant ex-ertional or non-exertional impairments. The ALJ then applied the Medical Vocation Guidelines, 20 C.F.R. Part 404, Sub-part P, Appendix 2 (the Grid), to find that the national economy offered…
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