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CULLINANE v. SECRETARY OF DEPT. OF H. & H. S.

No. 643, Docket 83-6136.

728 F.2d 137 (1984)

Ann CULLINANE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF the DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OF the UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 15, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Iris Greidinger, Rego Park, N.Y., for plaintiff-appellant.

Raymond J. Dearie, U.S. Atty., E.D.N.Y., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Miles M. Tepper, Kathleen A. Haggerty, Asst. U.S. Attys., Brooklyn, N.Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before KAUFMAN, OAKES, and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

An Administrative Law Judge (hereinafter "ALJ") has an affirmative duty to ensure that pro se disability insurance benefit claimants receive full and fair hearings. Gold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, 463 F.2d 38 (2d Cir.1972). We are presented here with a case in which an ALJ failed to heed appellant's objections to the judge's reliance on a letter written by an oral surgeon...

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