THOMPSON v. RICHARDSON

No. 220, Docket 71-1400.

452 F.2d 911 (1971)

Sawyer THOMPSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Elliott L. RICHARDSON, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 20, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sawyer Thompson, pro se.

L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Robert A. Morse, U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., Morton Hollander and Judith S. Ziss, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellee.

Before FRIENDLY, Chief Judge, FEINBERG, Circuit Judge, and DAVIS, Judge.


DAVIS, Judge:

Appellant Sawyer Thompson, an attorney, applied in May 1961, shortly before he became 65, for social security old-age retirement insurance benefits. He was informed on August 28, 1961 that he was entitled to such benefits but that he had not supplied sufficient information as to his self-employment earnings as a lawyer in 1958, 1959, and 1960 to permit credit for those years—thus reducing his award. He was told at the same time that he could ask...

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