United States Ninth Circuit

42 USC 423(d)(2)(C), which prohibits Social Security disability benefits for disability related to alcohol or drug consumption, applies to applications pending on prohibition's effective date.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/11/2001
• Decided 06/15/2001
• Published 06/15/2001

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  GOODWIN, GREENBERG, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elie Halpern, and Jeanette Laffoon, Olympia, Washington, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Victoria Blais, Assistant Regional Counsel, Social Security Administration, Seattle, Washington, for the defendant-appellee.