BROWN v. SULLIVAN

No. 89-8709.

921 F.2d 1233 (1991)

Laura Jan BROWN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 22, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Durrance, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

Nina Loree Hunt, Asst. U.S. Atty., Melinda V. Spratt, Bruce R. Granger, Haila Naomi Kleinman, Mary Ann Sloan, Mack A. Davis, Office of Gen. Counsel, Dept. HHS, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant-appellee.

Before ANDERSON and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge.


GODBOLD, Senior Circuit Judge:

Laura Jan Brown appeals from the district court's affirmance of the Secretary's determination of the onset date of her disability. She contends, among other things, that, because the Secretary did not apply the proper legal standard to subjective evidence of her pain, he incorrectly determined that she became totally disabled in 1981 rather than in 1978. In reply the Secretary asserts that he applied the proper standard to the subjective...

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