Legal Opinion
Kuehner v. Heckler
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 9, 1985No. 85-1227PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
EDWARD R. BECKER, Circuit Judge.
In April 1981, plaintiff Frank Kuehner and a number of other Pennsylvania citizens filed a civil action in the district court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of themselves and a class consisting of all Pennsylvania residents whose disability benefits had been terminated or threatened with termination by the Social Security Administration. The gravamen of plaintiffs’ complaint was that their benefits had been unfairly terminated because the Social Security Administration had used an improper and unduly harsh “current…
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