MULLEN v. BOWEN

Nos. 84-1455, 84-5352.

800 F.2d 535 (1986)

Luther D. MULLEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee. Richard G. SHEPHERD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy A. O'Rourke, Thomas Hay, Anderson, Hay and Wonch, Lansing, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant in No. 84-1455.

John A. Smietanka, U.S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., Martin F. Palus, Asst. U.S. Atty., Thomas Martin, William Kanter, Howard S. Scher, Appellate Staff, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee in No. 84-1455.

Susan K. McParland, Michigan Legal Services, Detroit, Mich., Carolyn Carter, Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, Eileen P. Sweeney, Nat. Senior Citizens Law Center, Washington, D.C., Neal S. Dudovitz, Sally Hart Wilson (argued), Peter Komlos-Hrobsky, Eugenie Denise Mitchell, Nat. Senior Citizens Law Center, Los Angeles, Cal., for amicus curiae.

Alva A. Hollon, Jr. (argued), Hollon, Hollon & Hollon, Hazard, Ky., for plaintiff-appellant in No. 84-5352.

Louis DeFalaise, U.S. Atty., Lexington, Ky., Karl L. Anderson, Monica Wheatley (argued), William Kanter, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Howard S. Scher, Lead Counsel, for defendant-appellee in No. 84-5352.

Before LIVELY, Chief Judge, and ENGEL, KEITH, MERRITT, KENNEDY, MARTIN, JONES, CONTIE, KRUPANSKY, WELLFORD, MILBURN, GUY and NELSON, Circuit Judges.


ENGEL, Circuit Judge.

We granted en banc rehearing in these consolidated social security disability appeals to resolve an inconsistency between two decisions by different panels of our court relating to the role of the Appeals Council in the scheme of review of disability determinations. Compare Newsome v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 753 F.2d 44 (6th Cir.1985), with Beavers v. Secretary of Health, Education ...

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