Legal Opinion
Marlin SARCHET, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 5, 1996No. 95-3283PublishedCited by 1,219 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Marlin Sarchet was denied social security disability benefits, challenged the denial in the district court, lost, appeals. She is 42 years old, with a graduate equivalency degree, but she has not worked since 1978. She claims that in 1990 she became totally disabled as a consequence of fibromyalgia, also known as fibrositis — a common, but elusive and mysterious, disease, much like chronic fatigue syndrome, with which it shares a number of features. See Frederick Wolfe et al.,' “The American College of Rheumatology 1990 Criteria for the Classification of Fibromyalgia:…
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