BROZ v. SCHWEIKER

Nos. 81-7140, 81-7143, 81-7336, 81-7370 and 81-7466.

677 F.2d 1351 (1982)

John BROZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard S. SCHWEIKER, Secretary of Health & Human Services, a Department of the United States Government, Defendant-Appellant. Richard D. HOLMES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard S. SCHWEIKER, The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellant. Corrine LITTLE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard S. SCHWEIKER, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellant. Thomas O. JONES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard S. SCHWEIKER, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellant. Fred SOESBE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard S. SCHWEIKER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 7, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne Buxton Sobol, Dept. of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellant in all cases.

Thomas H. Figures, Asst. U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., for defendant-appellant in No. 81-7140.

E. T. Rolison, Jr., Mobile, Ala., for defendant-appellant in Nos. 81-7143, 81-7466.

Ginny S. Granade, Asst. U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., for defendant-appellant in No. 81-7370.

Joseph E. Carr, IV, Legal Services Corp. of Ala., Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee in No. 81-7140.

Steven Emens, Alabama Legal Services, Tuscaloosa, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee in No. 7143.

Michael J. Salmon, Gulf Shores, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee in No. 81-7336.

Daniel L. McCleave, Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee in No. 81-7370.

Nettles, Cox & Barker, Kenneth O. Simon, Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee in No. 81-7466.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, HENDERSON and MERRITT, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Chief Judge:

In these five consolidated appeals we decide the validity of the Department of Health and Human Services' Medical-Vocational Guidelines, popularly known as the "grid regulations," which are employed in determinations of Social Security disability benefits.1 These regulations appear at 20 C.F.R. part 404, subpart P, Appendix 2 (1981), and were promulgated in 1978 under the Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability...

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