Kenneth J. Rome v. Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

The appellant brought this suit in the District Court for the Southern District of Florida seeking judicial review of a decision by the appellee, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, denying the appellant’s claim for social security disability benefits. On the Secretary’s motion, the district court entered summary judgment upholding the denial of disability benefits. After a careful examination of the record, we have deter mined that the Secretary’s decision was supported by substantial evidence; accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the district court. 1

On October 2, 1963, the…