Burrell Detherage v. Jo Anne Barnhart

This is an attempted appeal from the district court’s 1 order affirming the Com missioner of Social Security’s termination of disability insurance benefits. The threshold issue for us is whether Detherage’s notice of appeal, filed months before the district court’s order was entered, is sufficient to give us jurisdiction to consider the appeal. We hold that it is not, and we therefore dismiss the appeal.

Detherage’s September 30, 1987, application for disability insurance benefits was approved effective September 16, 1987, on the basis of Detherage’s testicular carcinoma, alcoholic liver…