BRANHAM v. HECKLER

No. 84-2335.

775 F.2d 1271 (1985)

Larry R. BRANHAM, Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Gorman Rosenberger, Jr., Kizer, Phillips & Petty, Lynchburg, Va., for appellant.

E. Montgomery Tucker, Asst. U.S. Atty., Roanoke, Va. (Joan A. Brown, Office of the Regional Atty., Dept. of Health and Human Services, on brief), for appellee.

Before WIDENER and HALL, Circuit Judges, and KNAPP, United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.


WIDENER, Circuit Judge.

Branham appeals from an order of the district court that modified the decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary). The district court changed the onset date of disability found by the Secretary from January 15, 1983 to December 17, 1982. Branham contends that the onset date of his disability should be October 1979. For the reasons stated below, we modify the onset date to October...

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