GENTLE v. BARNHART

No. 05-1089.

430 F.3d 865 (2005)

Nicole GENTLE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jo Anne B. BARNHART, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 7, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry A. Schultz (argued), Evanston, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Kristin N. Wuerffel (argued), Social Security Administration Office of the General Counsel, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before POSNER, KANNE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The administrative law judge denied Nicole Gentle's application for social security disability benefits on the ground that although she has a severe impairment, she is capable of doing her former work, as a supermarket delicatessen worker and school lunchroom attendant, which she left in 2001 when she became pregnant with her second child. That child was 11 months old at the time of the hearing, and Gentle, who is not married, takes care of...

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