Joe W. Grant v. Casper W. Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Appellant, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, appeals from the grant of full Social Security disability benefits by the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division.

This case is an extension of the debate previously joined in Lofty v. Richardson, 440 F.2d 1144 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 985, 92 S.Ct. 443, 30 L.Ed.2d 369 (1971), and ultimately decided in Richardson v. Belcher, 404 U.S. 78, 92 S.Ct. 254, 30 L.Ed.2d 231 (1971). These cases concerned a due process attack upon 42 U.S.C. § 424a (1970), wherein Congress provided an offset…