James McCLEES, Appellant, v. Louis SULLIVAN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Appellee

LAY, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the district court’s order dismissing the claimant’s petition for review on the ground that substantial evidence on the record as a whole supported the Secretary’s denial of Social Security benefits. We reverse and remand with directions for a de novo administrative hearing. James McClees is a fifty-four year old man with a ninth grade education who suffers from severe scoliosis as a result of childhood polio and rickets. He also suffers from vertebral and thoracic deformities with his left rib cage being lower than his right rib cage. As a young adult,…