Legal Opinion
Dena M. Stone v. Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 21, 1981No. 80-1595PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.
The issue in this Social Security disability benefits ease is whether substantial evidence supports the Secretary’s finding that applicant Stone is still able to perform gainful sedentary work.
Stone filed for disability benefits for the third time in 1978, when she was twenty-three years old. At that time Stone, who is five feet tall, weighed well over 250 pounds. In December of 1979 she weighed 333 pounds. Stone’s health problems are, by any account, manifold. Clearly, by current social standards she is grossly obese. In addition, she has skeletal deformities of…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Vernon Brinker v. Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and WelfareCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1975
- Emil C. Timmerman v. Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of H.E.W., Kenneth Marks v. Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of H.E.W.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1975
- Alfred P. Gilliam v. Joseph A. Califano, Secretary, Health, Education & Welfare of the United States or Successor or Successors in OfficeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1980
- Dorothy J. Russell v. Secretary of Health, Education and WelfareCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1976
- May v. Stephens v. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare of the United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1979
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3Cited by32 opinions
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- Charlotte M. O'Leary v. Richard S. Schweiker, Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1983
- Wayne L. Tennant v. Richard Schweiker, Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1982
- Mazzie TOME, Appellant, v. Richard SCHWEIKER, Secretary, Health & Human Services, AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1984
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