Legal Opinion · Dissent
James J. Lubinski v. Louis Sullivan, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 24, 1991No. 91-1665Published
1DissentHeaney, Senior Circuit Judge
James L. Lubinski has been an alcoholic for many years. He started drinking in high school. By 1975, his chronic alcoholism was already of “some years duration,” and although he underwent chemical dependency treatment that year, Lubinski made “very minimal progress while in treatment.” Lubinski stopped attending Alcoholics Anonymous soon thereafter and *218has not been enrolled in it or a similar program since. Lubinski lost every job he held from 1976 to 1981 because of his drinking, and has not had a steady job since 1981. Lubinski has been convicted of drunk driving at least seven times, most…
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