United States Eleventh Circuit

In application for Social Security disability benefits, an administrative law judge may not simply reject a diagnosis for chronic fatigue syndrome when medical record contains a diagnosis for it even, if there is no definite test or specific laboratory findings to support such a diagnosis.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/20/2001
• Published 09/20/2001

Judges

• DUBINA, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, DUBINA and DUHE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roberta M. Klosiewicz, Tampa, FL, Carol Ann Avard, Associates & Avard Law Offices, Cape Coral, FL, Chantal J. Harrington, Jacksonville, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jason P. Peck, Mary Ann Sloan, Dennis Williams, Elyse Sharfman, Office of General Counsel, SSA, Atlanta Fed. Ctr., Atlanta, GA, for Defdendant-Appellee.