Brennan v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare

DONOVAN, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff herein seeks review of a decision of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, denying his application to establish a period of disability and for disability insurance benefits pursuant to the provisions of Title II of the Social Security Act.1

Plaintiff’s application was denied in 1963 after consideration and reconsideration by the Social Security Administration. Plaintiff thereafter obtained a hearing before a hearing examiner, who denied his application after determining that plaintiff had no “disability” 2 within the meaning of the Act. The…