GRESSLEY v. CALIFANO

No. 79-1025.

609 F.2d 1265 (1979)

Minor GRESSLEY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph A. CALIFANO, Jr., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 3, 1979.

Rehearing Denied January 9, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph B. Scott, Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., App. Staff, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellant.

Richard L. Swartz, Wabash, Ind., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

In June of 1968 the plaintiff-appellee, Minor Gressley, applied for social security disability benefits, alleging that he became unable to work in January of that year. The Social Security Administration denied the application, both initially and on reconsideration, on the ground that Gressley had not met the requirement that he have social security credits for twenty calendar quarters (five years) of work during a forty-quarter...

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