Orville J. Griffis, Jr. v. Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Social Security Hearing Officer's decision reversed and remanded because he applied \an improper legal standard\
• Social Security Hearing Officer’s decision reversed and re manded because he applied “an improper legal standard”
• “The proposition that chronic acute alcoholism is itself a disease, ‘a medically determinable physical or mental impairment,’ is hardly debatable today.”
• “The presence or absence of ‘underlying’ physical or mental impairment as accompaniments or products of the disease may be relevant evidence relating to the decision of [whether the claimant is disabled], but absence of them is not controlling.”
• “Some alcoholics can stop; more cannot.”
• \Some alcoholics can stop; more cannot.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).