United States Second Circuit

District court judgment affirming a denial by the Commissioner of Social Security of two applications by plaintiff for benefits is vacated and remanded where plaintiff proceeded pro se at his hearing, and the judge failed to provide the requisite assistance to plaintiff in developing a record to support his application.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/24/2009
• Published 06/24/2009

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge:, Before KEARSE, SACK, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Schneider, Plattsburgh, NY, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Vernon Norwood, Special Assistant United States Attorney, New York, N.Y. (Glenn T. Suddaby, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York;  Barbara L. Spivak, Chief Counsel-Region II, Office of the General Counsel, Social Security Administration, Syracuse, NY), for Appellee.