MERCADO v. SEC. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Civ. No. 83-0538(PG).

573 F.Supp. 1023 (1983)

Rafael MERCADO, Plaintiff, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

October 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Marcano Román, Gustavo Wiscovitch, San Juan, P.R., for plaintiff.

No appearance for defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

PEREZ-GIMENEZ, District Judge.

This is an action brought under Section 205(g) of the Social Security Act, as amended (hereinafter referred to as the Act), 42 U.S.C. 405(g), to review a final determination of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary), which denied plaintiff's application for a period of disability and disability insurance benefits.

Plaintiff is a forty-one-year-old illiterate man who has worked as...

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