Smith v. Heckler

MEMORANDUM

GESELL, District Judge.

Annie M. Smith is a 39-year-old woman with a ninth-grade education who worked *510as a janitor and at other unskilled jobs until late 1979 when she stopped work because of worsening back pain. She applied for disability insurance and supplemental security income under the Social Security Act in 1982. Now she seeks to overturn the final decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services on January 5, 1984 denying her those benefits. The Court has considered the entire administrative record in the case along with the arguments of counsel in their cross-motions…