GROVES v. APFEL

No. 97-3688.

148 F.3d 809 (1998)

Kathryn K. GROVES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth S. APFEL, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason W. Whitley (argued), Novitzke, Gust & Sempf, Amery, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Peggy A. Lautenschlager, Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, John Lee (Argued), Social Security Administration, Office of the General Counsel, Region V, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and ESCHBACH, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision by the district court affirming the denial of social security disability benefits to Kathryn Groves. Groves is a middle-aged woman who has chronic degenerative disc disease in several of her spinal discs and has had two operations on her spine. After working for many years as an x-ray technician, she quit in 1990 allegedly because of the pain caused by her spinal condition. The following year she applied for disability...

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