Legal Opinion
Marilyn Kitts v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner Social Security Administration
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 17, 2000No. 99-1899PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Per curiam
Marilyn Kitts applied for supplemental security income (SSI), alleging disability beginning March 16, 1995, from leg, back, and hand problems. After a hearing, an administrative law judge (ALJ) found that despite Kitts’s severe spondylolisthesis (forward movement of a lower lumbar vertebra), she had the residual functional capacity to perform a full range of sedentary work based on the Medical Vocational Guidelines, and thus she was not disabled. The ALJ discredited Kitts’s allegations of disabling pain to the extent alleged because of her daily activities, her “minimal” medical treatment…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Mitchell W. MACKEY, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Donna E. SHALALA, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1995
- Flora M. SULLINS, Appellant, v. Donna E. SHALALA, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
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