STARK v. WEINBERGER

No. 73-1993.

497 F.2d 1092 (1974)

Bernice F. STARK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Caspar W. WEINBERGER (Successor to Elliot Richardson), Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 31, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Kates, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Kathryn H. Baldwin and Stanton R. Koppel, Attys., Civil Div., Appellate Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., James R. Thompson, U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before PELL, STEVENS and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges.


STEVENS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff has been afflicted with scleroderma,1 a progressive, incurable disease, since the late 1930's. She claims the right to receive disability benefits since 1971, the year in which she first applied for relief under the Social Security Act.2 It is perfectly clear that she was then — and indeed for many years had been — disabled within the meaning of the Act. However...

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