Legal Opinion
Edwards v. Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 5, 1991No. 90-8001PublishedCited by 578 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge:
Patricia Edwards appeals the district court’s1 order affirming the denial of her application for disability insurance benefits. We affirm the district court’s order.
I. BACKGROUND
Edwards was born in May 1947 and is a high school graduate. In 1969 she began working for Delta Airlines, first as a teletype operator and then as a reservation agent. Sometime in 1973, she severely injured her back when she fell out of her chair at work. Some of her discs were fused, and she stopped working until 1979; from 1974 to 1977 she received disability insurance benefits.
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