Published opinions from 1983. The case name opens the case page.
November 22, 1983722 F.2d 1033
The court affirmed the district court’s judgment upholding the Secretary’s termination of Mongeur’s disability benefits. It held that the later organic-brain-syndrome diagnosis did not qualify as new evidence because the reported symptoms had existed for years, and concluded that substantial evidence supported the…
The Second Circuit reversed the district court's judgment affirming the Secretary's denial of widow's insurance benefits to Mozell Grey, the deserted first wife of Arthur Grey. Applying 42 U.S.C. Sec.
The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment upholding the Secretary's denial of disability insurance benefits to Paul E. Dumas, a 58-year-old former highway superintendent with hypertension, diabetes, peripheral arteriosclerosis, obesity and agitated depression.
The court reversed the default judgment because Zuck filed her answer within the extension period, and the district court could not condition that extension on her obtaining counsel in violation of her right to represent herself.
June 15, 1983711 F.2d 1136
The Second Circuit reversed the district court's $1,406,751.39 attorney's fee award under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1988 to Legal Aid Society and NYCLU lawyers for the decade-long Willowbrook institutional reform litigation, concluding the award was an excessive windfall, and remanded with a recalculated award of $613,992 (a…
April 11, 1983705 F.2d 638
The Second Circuit reversed the district court's judgment sustaining the Secretary's denial of social security disability insurance benefits to Herbert Carroll, a former security guard whom the ALJ found unable to perform his past work but capable of 'sedentary' work.