Vincent Schena v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing Secretary’s decision that claimant’s rejection of spinal surgery barred him from disability benefits “[g]iven the 3 uncertain (and sometimes adverse) consequences of spinal surgery”
• claimant not required to undergo recommended spinal surgery
• “A reasonable fear may justify the refusal of treatment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).