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ACEVEDO RAMIREZ v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE

No. 76-1169.

550 F.2d 1286 (1977)

Francisco ACEVEDO RAMIREZ, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 5, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Suarez Zayas, Pedro J. Varela, Maria Dolores Fernos, Pedro J. Saade Llorens and Sonia A. Rodriguez, Hato Rey, P. R., on brief for appellant.

Rex E. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Julio Morales Sanchez, U.S. Atty., San Juan, P. R., Morton Hollander and Mark H. Gallant, Attys., Appellate Section, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on brief for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from the lower court's sustaining the Secretary's denial of an application for medical disability. We affirm.

Appellant argues that the administrative law judge did not give sufficient weight to his subjective complaints of pain. For the reasons recited in the lower court's opinion, we hold that there was substantial evidence for discrediting this testimony. Additionally, there was no error in the Secretary's determination that...

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