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FERGUSON v. SCHWEIKER

No. 79-3135.

641 F.2d 243 (1981)

Samuel A. FERGUSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Richard S. SCHWEIKER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

March 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurel G. Weir, Philadelphia, Miss., for plaintiff-appellant.

L. A. Smith, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Robert E. Haubert, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Walter E. McCabe, Jr., Atty., Dept. of HEW, Baltimore, Md., for defendant-appellee.

Before GOLDBERG, POLITZ and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

Our nation's courts are required to play a limited role in reviewing the disposition of social security benefits claims. We are not to meddle in the fact-findings of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare1 ("the Secretary") unless the decision is not supported by "substantial evidence." Western v. Harris, 633 F.2d 1204 (5th Cir. 1981); Fruge v. Harris,

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