Hung NGUYEN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Defendant, Appellee

U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · Decided 1999-03-26

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PER CURIAM. Claimant Nguyen applied for social security disability benefits after injuring his back at work in January, 1993. Following a March, 1995 hearing, an administrative law judge (ALJ) found that although claimant’s severe lumbar and cervical disc-disease prevented him from returning to his vocation of welder-carpenter, he retained the functional capacity for sedentary w…

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