HUBBARD v. CALIFANO

No. 77-1718.

582 F.2d 319 (1978)

Abbott HUBBARD, Appellant, v. Joseph A. CALIFANO, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 24, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Crews, Beckley, W. Va. (E. Carl Meadows, Jr., Meadows & Crews, Beckley, W. Va., on brief), for appellant.

Phillip I. Morse, Special Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md. (John A. Field, III, U. S. Atty., Charleston, W. Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, WIDENER and HALL, Circuit Judges.


K. K. HALL, Circuit Judge.

I.

BASIC ENTITLEMENT

The court adopts and incorporates its discussion of basic entitlement found in Part I of Petry v. Califano, 577 F.2d 860 (4th Cir. 1978). Claimant here relies on the presumption found in 20 C.F.R. § 410.414(b), as did the claimant in Petry, and here also, the Secretary does not challenge the facts that claimant is or was a coal miner, that pneumoconiosis...

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