Linda Godbey v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2001-01-25

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ORDER In 1985 Linda Godbey was hospitalized for major depression with psychotic features and viral syndrome, which doctors diagnosed as probable viral encephalitis or an acute inflammation of the brain. More than ten years later, Godbey applied for disability insurance benefits (“DIB”) from the Social Security Administration (“SSA”), complaining that between 1985 and 1990 (the date she wa…

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