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FREEMAN v. DIR., OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMP. PROGRAMS

No. 84-3493.

781 F.2d 79 (1986)

Inez FREEMAN, Petitioner, v. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; BENEFITS REVIEW BOARD, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided January 13, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven B. Horenstein, Lang, Horenstein & Dunlevey, Dayton, Ohio, Robert O'Neal (argued), for petitioner.

Benefits Review Bd., Mark Robson, J. Michael O'Neill, Jeffrey J. Bernstein (argued), Office of the Sol., U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., for respondent.

Before ENGEL and KEITH, Circuit Judges and COHN, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Inez Freeman petitions for review of an order of the Benefits Review Board of the United States Department of Labor denying her benefits as the widow of a coal miner under the Black Lung Benefits Act, 30 U.S.C. §§ 901-945 (1971 & Supp.1985). Mrs. Freeman claims that a treating physician's opinion as supported by lay testimony established a rebuttable presumption of disabling pneumoconiosis and that the Benefits Review Board's reversal of...

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