Legal Opinion
Luther D. Mullen v. Otis Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Richard G. Shepherd v. Otis Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 2, 1986No. 84-1455, 84-5352PublishedCited by 1,811 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENGEL, Circuit Judge.
We granted en banc rehearing in these consolidated social security disability appeals to resolve an inconsistency between two decisions by different panels of our court relating to the role of the Appeals Council in the scheme of review of disability determinations. Compare Newsome v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 753 F.2d 44 (6th Cir.1985), with Beavers v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, 577 F.2d 383 (6th Cir.1978). We are also necessarily required to consider what standard of review should be applied by the district courts and our circuit where the…
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