Legal Opinion
Richardson v. Perales
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 3, 1971No. 108PublishedCited by 22,582 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
In 1966 Pedro Perales, a San Antonio truck driver, then aged 34, height 6' 11", weight about 220 pounds, filed a claim for disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act. Sections 216 (i) (1), 68 Stat. 1080, and 223 (d)(1), 81 Stat. 868, of that Act, 42 U. S. C. § 416 (i) (1) and 42 U. S. C. § 423 (d)(1) (1964 ed., Supp. V), both provide that the term “disability” means “inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which . . . ,”1 Section 205 (g), 42 TJ. S. C. §405 (g), relating to judicial review,…
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