· 11/8/1994
Sahara Coal Company v. John B. Fitts and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor
Citations
- 39 F.3d 781
- 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 31229
- 1994 WL 617565
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- remanding a black lung case to the agency because \[n]othing in the administrative law judge's opinion offers a clue as to how to choose between the two physicians' opinions\
- stat- ing that a physician's opinion diagnosing pneumoconiosis based solely on discredited x-ray evidence \cannot be considered probative evidence that [the claimant] has pneumoconiosis\
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Judges: Posner, Bauer, Flaum
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