Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Berry

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[m]anifestation, not cause, is the yardstick” for defining mental illness
• manifestation (i.e., symptoms) of a condition, not the cause of the condition, is the appropriate \yardstick\ to use in determining whether a condition is a mental illness
• “Manifestation, not cause, is the yardstick” for determining whether an illness is or is not a mental illness
• “Manifestation, not cause, is the yardstick” for determining whether an illness is or is not a mental illness
• manifestation (i.e., symptoms) of a condition, not the cause of the condition, is the appropriate “yardstick” to use in determining whether a condition is a mental illness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).