SEPULVEDA v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Civ. No. 81-1945 (JP).

570 F.Supp. 1423 (1983)

Joaquina SEPULVEDA, Plaintiff, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

September 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Porfirio Martínez Laboy, José Ramón Méndez, Puerto Rico Legal Services, Ponce, P.R., for plaintiff.

Daniel F. Lopez Romo, U.S. Atty., Hato Rey, P.R., for defendant.


OPINION AND ORDER

PIERAS, District Judge.

This is an action brought under Section 205(g) of the Social Security Act, as amended (the Act), for review of the final decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary), denying plaintiff's application for widow's insurance benefits.

The facts underlying this decision are as follows: On September 16, 1916, Serafin Baez Figueroa, the wage-earner, married Angela Morales Lebrón in...

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