OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge: This appeal involves litigation initiated more than a decade ago on behalf of more than 200,000 claimants whose applications for benefits were denied on the basis of what the trial court found to be systematic and covert misapplication of the disability regulations. Defendant Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services (the “Secretary”), appeals from a December 22, 1993, final order (…
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