Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 28, 1990No. 89-2676PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Chief Judge.
This class action challenging various regulations and policies of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the “Secretary”) is now in its eighth year. In 1983, plaintiffs originally filed suit claiming that the Secretary’s “severity regulation,” the second step in a five-step disability screening analysis, violated the plain terms of the Social Security Act (the “Act”). Beyond this, the plaintiffs contended that the Secretary’s policy of not considering the combined effects of non-severe impairments (the “no-combination” policy) also was contrary to the language and…
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3Cited by26 opinions
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