SHEPHERD v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

No. 84-5352.

758 F.2d 196 (1985)

Richard G. SHEPHERD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alva A. Hollon, Jr. (argued), Hollon, Hollon & Hollon, Hazard, Ky., for plaintiff-appellant.

Louis DeFalaise, U.S. Atty., Lexington, Ky., Karl L. Anderson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Monica Wheatley (argued), Lexington, Ky., for defendant-appellee.

Before MERRITT and MILBURN, Circuit Judges, and WEICK, Senior Circuit Judge.


MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

Claimant Shepherd is presently a 42-year old male whose alleged disability is based on disc injury and a mental illness diagnosed as hysterical neurosis, conversion type. His prior work experience was unskilled, primarily heavy work. He was employed as a coal miner, an assembly line supervisor for a factory that made brake drums, an unskilled laborer, and a postal carrier. He injured his lower back...

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