WHITEN v. FINCH

No. 14721.

437 F.2d 73 (1971)

Patsy B. WHITEN, Appellee, v. Robert H. FINCH, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 3, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Hair, Atty., Department of Justice (William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Kathryn H. Baldwin, Atty., Department of Justice, and Joseph O. Rogers, Jr., U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellant.

John B. Culbertson, Greenville, S. C., for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

In this Social Security case, the District Judge directed an award of benefits though they had been administratively denied. In doing so, we think he departed from his limited scope of review.

The claimant is a young woman who suffered a mild heart attack. The healing processes appeared to have proceeded normally, but the claimant has continued to complain of atypical pain and weakness, for which the doctors...

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