TERRY v. SULLIVAN

No. 89-35477.

903 F.2d 1273 (1990)

Verna B. TERRY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health & Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angelo Gomez, Ginsburg, Gomez & Neal, Hillsboro, Or., for plaintiff-appellant.

Richard Wetmore, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., Dept. of Health and Human Services, Seattle, Wash., for defendant-appellee.

Before BROWNING, ALARCON and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.


KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:

Social Security regulations require that disability benefits be paid to a claimant whose impairments prevent her from doing her previous work, unless the Secretary can identify other types of work she can perform. Where the claimant is close to retirement age, the Secretary's burden is particularly heavy; he must identify jobs that are less demanding than the claimant's previous work, but not so easy as to require no skill at all. We consider...

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