McDONALD v. HECKLER

Civ. A. No. 84-2190-G.

624 F.Supp. 375 (1985)

Claire McDONALD et al., Plaintiffs, v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

December 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sarah Anderson, Linda L. Landry, Neighborhood Legal Services, Lynn, Mass., Laura Rosenthal, Nancy Lorenz, Greater Boston Legal Services, Boston, Mass., and Alan S. Els, Cambridge & Somerville Legal Services, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Marianne Bowler, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., Edwin Meese, III, U.S. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

GARRITY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in the instant class action challenge the regulatory policies and procedures of the Social Security Administration which are used to deny disability benefits to claimants on the grounds that they do not have severe impairments. These policies are found in both the regulations and social security rulings. 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1520(c); 404.1521; 416.920(c)...

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