Clarence TAYLOR, SS # 465-58-9132, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

TATE, Circuit Judge:

The claimant Taylor appeals from a judgment of the district court that affirmed the Secretary’s termination of his disability benefits under the Social Security Act. 42 U.S.C. § 405(g). He contends that the district court erred in dismissing his complaint and in thus affirming the administrative law judge’s finding that Taylor had failed to prove a continuing impairment of disabling severity, so that thus his disability ceased in December 1981.

On appeal, Taylor argues, inter alia, that the AU’s finding is not supported by substantial evidence, in part because the AU failed…