Samuel H. Peeler v. Margaret Heckler, Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Samuel Peeler brought this suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri challenging the defendant’s suspension of his social-security disability benefits. He asserted that the statute under which the defendant acted is an unconstitutional ex post facto law and also resisted the defendant’s efforts to force repayment of benefits which the plaintiff had already received. The District Court dismissed the complaint, from which order the plaintiff now appeals. We affirm as to the constitutionality of the statute but reverse and remand for…