ELLINGTON v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

No. 82-1884.

738 F.2d 159 (1984)

Roy ELLINGTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 6, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Grant, Gary M. Busch (argued), Southfield, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

Leonard R. Gilman, U.S. Atty., L. Michael Wicks, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellee.

Before MERRITT and WELLFORD, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge.


MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

The medical-vocational guidelines, the so-called "grid," 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1501-1599 (1983), recently adopted by the Social Security Administration and upheld by the Supreme Court in Heckler v. Campbell, 461 U.S. 458, 103 S.Ct. 1952, 76 L.Ed.2d 66 (1983), determines whether a social security claimant receives disability benefits when a physical disability limits the claimant to only sedentary...

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