Legal Opinion
Robert Difford v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 7, 1991No. 89-3445PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Robert Difford appeals the district court judgment affirming the termination of his social security disability benefits. For the following reasons, we reverse.
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Robert Difford was born on February 2, 1947 and has an eleventh grade education. He worked as a crane operator from 1966 to 1975 and then as a carpenter’s helper from June 1984 to January 1985.
On October 19, 1976, Difford applied for social security disability benefits, claiming he was disabled from transverse myelitis, an inflammatory problem affecting the spinal cord. That…
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