Legal Opinion
Linda Sims v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 4, 2002No. 02-1515PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Linda Sims appeals from the district court’s order upholding the denial of her applications for disability insurance benefits (“DIB”) and supplemental security income (“SSI”) by the Social Security Administration (“SSA”). Sims contends that the decision by the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) is not supported by substantial evidence because the ALJ ignored or misstated significant medical findings in the record. We affirm the district court’s judgment.
I. Background
Sims was born in 1952 and has a high school equivalent education. In the early 1990’s she worked as a…
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