Carol A. Jones v. Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Carol Jones applied for social security disability benefits in early 1992, citing a fractured ankle, arthritis, and low back pain. After a hearing at which a vocational expert testified, an administrative law judge denied. Ms. Jones’s application for benefits. In mid-1994, Ms. Jones sued in federal district court in Iowa for judicial review of that decision. See 42 U.S.C. § 405(g).

The district court affirmed the decision of the administrative law judge. See Jones v. Shalala, 887 F.Supp. 210 (S.D.Iowa 1995). Ms. Jones appeals, arguing that the vocational…