NGUYEN v. CHATER

No. 98-1302.

172 F.3d 31 (1999)

Hung NGUYEN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 26, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald B. Eskin on brief for appellant.

Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, and Anita Johnson, Assistant U.S. Attorney, on brief for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, BOUDIN and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Claimant Nguyen applied for social security disability benefits after injuring his back at work in January, 1993. Following a March, 1995 hearing, an administrative law judge (ALJ) found that although claimant's severe lumbar and cervical disc-disease prevented him from returning to his vocation of welder-carpenter, he retained the functional capacity for sedentary work and exhibited no significant exertional or non-exertional impairments. The ALJ then...

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