JORDAN v. HECKLER

No. 86-1658.

835 F.2d 1314 (1987)

Raymond JORDAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 29, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul F. McTighe, Jr., Tulsa, Okl., for plaintiff-appellant.

Peter Bernhardt, Asst. U.S. Atty., Tulsa, Okl. (Edwin L. Meese, U.S. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Layn R. Phillips, U.S. Atty., Tulsa, Okl., Gayla Fuller, Chief Counsel, Patrick A. Hudson, Principal Regional Counsel, Social Security Disability Litigation Branch, Karen J. Behner, Asst. Regional Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Dallas, Tex., with him on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before SEYMOUR and MOORE, Circuit Judges, and ANDERSON, District Judge.


SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.

Raymond Jordan appeals an order of the district court affirming the decision of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to deny him Social Security disability benefits. Jordan argues that the decision is not supported by substantial evidence because the Administrative Law Judge did not fulfill his duty to elicit all relevant information. We affirm.

Jordan was a fifty-six year old man with a twelfth grade education on the date of...

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