STONE v. HARRIS

No. 80-1595.

657 F.2d 210 (1981)

Dena M. STONE, Appellant, v. Patricia Roberts HARRIS, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Kurt Swaim, Legal Services Corp. of Iowa, Dubuque, Iowa, for appellant.

Kenneth J. Cain, Atty., Dept. of Health and Human Services, Kansas City, Mo., Robert Teig, Asst. U.S. Atty., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for appellee.

Before HEANEY and HENLEY, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.


PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

The issue in this Social Security disability benefits case is whether substantial evidence supports the Secretary's finding that applicant Stone is still able to perform gainful sedentary work.

Stone filed for disability benefits for the third time in 1978, when she was twenty-three years old. At that time Stone, who is five feet tall, weighed well over 250 pounds. In December of 1979 she weighed 333 pounds. Stone's health problems...

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