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LANKFORD v. SULLIVAN

No. 90-6514.

942 F.2d 301 (1991)

Jimmy R. LANKFORD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided June 21, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna M. Lefebvre (argued and on brief), Rural Legal Services of Tennessee, Oak Ridge, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Bruce Granger, Mack A. Davis, Mary Ann Sloan, Laurie G. Remter (on brief), Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Gen. Counsel, Atlanta, Ga., and John W. Gill, Jr., U.S. Atty., and Loretta Simonetti Harber, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Office of the U.S. Atty., Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant-appellee.

Before JONES and NORRIS, Circuit Judges, and LIVELY, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff Jimmy R. Lankford appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment affirming the Secretary's denial of Social Security disability benefits. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

I.

Lankford filed his application for benefits on April 10, 1985 alleging disability from December 31, 1974 due primarily to mental health problems. An administrative law judge ("ALJ") denied Lankford's application after a hearing on August...

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