Legal Opinion
L.B. LOVELACE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 26, 1987No. 86-4820PublishedCited by 349 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, through his delegates, denied an application for disability insurance benefits and Supplemental Security Income on the basis of an Administrative Law Judge’s finding that an applicant who was suffering from hypertension, arthritis, back trouble, and obesity was physically able to perform the kind of unskilled and semi-skilled work he had done in the past as a janitor, dishwasher, or assembly line worker. The AU, whose decision was affirmed without further reasons by the Appeals Review Council, based his decision in part…
2Cases cited36 opinions
- William W. STONE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health & Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1985
- Owen L. GORDON, Appellant, v. Richard S. SCHWEIKER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1984
- Frank Aubeuf v. Richard Schweiker, Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1981
- Thomas A. BRADY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
- Mary Strickland v. Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Health and Human ResourcesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
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3Cited by349 opinions
- Elizabeth J. HAMMOCK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis BOWEN, Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1989
- Ja'vonce Warre, on Behalf of E.T. Iv, a Minor Child v. Commissioner of the Social Security AdministrationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2006
- Patricia GREENSPAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Donna E. SHALALA, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1994
- Alvin R. HARRELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1988
- Manuel M. Villa v. Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
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