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RENSHAW v. HECKLER

No. 581, Docket 85-6272.

787 F.2d 50 (1986)

Edith L. RENSHAW, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret HECKLER, as Secretary of United States Department of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 31, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Sheldon, Jr., Buffalo, N.Y. (Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Jacqueline Stover, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty. for the W.D. of N.Y. (Salvatore R. Martoche, U.S. Atty. for the W.D. of N.Y., C. Donald O'Connor, Asst. U.S. Atty. for the W.D. of N.Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before MESKILL, PRATT, Circuit Judges, and MacMAHON, Senior District Judge for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.

GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents a single question: did the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the district court err in determining that, under Pennsylvania law, plaintiff Edith L. Renshaw was not the common-law wife of the decedent Albert Renshaw, and therefore not entitled to widow's insurance benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act. Finding that Edith and Albert Renshaw had entered into a valid common-law marriage under the...

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