SARCHET v. CHATER

No. 95-3283.

78 F.3d 305 (1996)

Marlin SARCHET, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 5, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Sutterfield (argued), Sutterfield & Johnson, P.C., Effingham, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

W. Charles Grace, Office of the United States Attorney, Criminal Division, Fairview Heights, IL, Myriah Miller (argued), Department of Health and Human Services, Region V, Social Security Administration, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and BAUER and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

Marlin Sarchet was denied social security disability benefits, challenged the denial in the district court, lost, appeals. She is 42 years old, with a graduate equivalency degree, but she has not worked since 1978. She claims that in 1990 she became totally disabled as a consequence of fibromyalgia, also known as fibrositis — a common, but elusive and mysterious, disease, much like chronic fatigue syndrome, with which it shares a number...

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