Legal Opinion
Eugenia SMERECZYNSKI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 16, 1991No. 90-1792PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
Eugenia Smereczynski appeals the denial of her application for benefits as a divorced wife. After being denied benefits at the administrative level, Smereczynski appealed to the United States district court, which affirmed the Secretary’s decision. We now reverse.
Mrs. Smereczynski is a native of an area of the Ukraine now controlled by the Soviet Union, but which, at the time of her birth, was a part of Poland. Mrs. Smereczynski, like many others who lived in the same place and time as she did, was swept up in the cataclysm of war and turmoil that swept through Europe in…
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