JOHNSON v. SULLIVAN

No. 83 C 4110.

714 F.Supp. 1476 (1989)

Edna JOHNSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

June 16, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Antolin, John Bouman, Robert E. Lehrer and Julie A. Nice, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Anton R. Valukas, U.S. Atty. by Linda A. Wawzenski, Asst. U.S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., and Donna Fuchsluger, General Counsel's Office, Social Security Admin., Baltimore, Md., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM ORDER

BUA, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, a group of unsuccessful applicants for federal disability benefits, filed this class action suit against the Secretary of Health and Human Services ("Secretary") in 1983. For six years, plaintiffs and the Secretary have waged an acrimonious legal war over the propriety of certain regulations governing the evaluation of federal disability claims. Plaintiffs won the opening battles in this court in 1983 and...

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