United States Eighth Circuit

For Social Security disability qualification, the treating physician's retention of applicant to his care, along with the opinions of other doctors that applicant's work skills are "seriously deficient" even with medication, will defeat a finding of residual function capacity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/01/2001
• Published 08/01/2001

Judges

• WOLLMAN, Chief Judge., BEFORE:  WOLLMAN, Chief Judge, MAGILL, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• E. Gregory Wallace, argued, Buies creek, NC (Anthony W. Bartels, Jonesboro, AR, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cicley S. Jefferson, Office of General Counsel, argued, SSA, Dallas, TX (Paula J. Casey, U.S. Atty, Stacy E. McCord, Asst. U.S. Atty., Tina M. Waddell, Chief Counsel, Region VI, SSA, Mark J. Kingsolver, Deputy Chief Counsel, Retion VI, SSA and Robert T. Bowman, Asst. Regional Counsel, SSA, Dallas, TX, on the brief), for appellee.