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· 3/17/1993

S.L. LEE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

Citations

  • 988 F.2d 789
  • 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 4964
  • 1993 WL 74008

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that court’s “role is not to reweigh any conflicting evidence” and that court should uphold decision “so long as reasonable minds may differ”
  • upholding finding of not disabled based upon testimony of vocational expert identifying 1,400 job positions which the plaintiff, having a limited residual functional capacity to perform sedentary and light work, could do within the greater Milwaukee metropolitan area
  • back pain usually around a level “seven,” headaches constantly in the “three or four to a ten” range
  • “[The grids] are only to be applied when they accurately describe a claimant’s abilities and limitations.”
  • addressing 1,400 jobs “in the greater Milwaukee metropolitan area”
  • finding 1,400 available jobs in a single occupation sufficient

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Judges: Posner, Easterbrook, Wood

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