Legal Opinion
Lea PIERRE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 29, 1989No. 88-3922PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Per curiam
Lea Pierre (Pierre), a fifty-nine-year-old woman who claims that various physical and mental ailments have disabled her from pursuing gainful employment, appeals from a district court affirmance of the denial of her widow’s disability and supplemental security income claims by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) under the Social Security Act (the Act), and the denial of her motion to remand for consideration of new evidence regarding mental retardation. Limited in our power to review the Secretary’s decision, we affirm the district court’s summary judgment refusing to…
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