Legal Opinion
Lee v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided October 3, 1985No. Civ. A. No. 85-CV-70020-DTPublished
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
FEIKENS, Chief Judge.
I have reviewed the record and Magistrate Binder’s Report and Recommendation in this case. Although I have decided to accept the Magistrate’s Report and Recommendation, the recent decision of Farris v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 773 F.2d 85 (6th Cir.1985), requires that I add to the Magistrate’s analysis.
In Farris, a panel of the Sixth Circuit limited the operation of the severity regulation, 20 C.F.R. § 416.921 (1985), by ruling that an impairment is not severe “only if the impairment is a ‘slight abnormality which has such a…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Doris Jean Allen v. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare,defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1980
- Thomas A. BRADY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
- Barbara Farris v. Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1985
- Guy v. SchweikerDistrict Court, S.D. Ohio · 1982
- Bailey v. Secretary of Health, Education & WelfareDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1979