Case Name: John E. BEESMER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1984-09-11
Citations: 744 F.2d 10
Docket Number: No. 29, Docket 84-6097
Parties: John E. BEESMER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 744
Pages: 10–11

Head Matter:
John E. BEESMER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 29, Docket 84-6097.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued Sept. 6, 1984.
Decided Sept. 11, 1984.
John S. Hogg, Hamilton, N.Y., for plaintiff-appellant.
Edward R. Broton, Asst. U.S. Atty., N.D. N.Y., Syracuse, N.Y., (Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., U.S. Atty., Syracuse, N.Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.
Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
This case presents just one issue: whether benefits paid plaintiff-appellant John E. Beesmer under New York State's Volunteer Firemen's Benefit Law are benefits "under a workmen's compensation law or plan of . a State" within the meaning of the applicable offset provision of the Social Security Act in effect in 1975 when Beesmer became disabled, Pub.L. No. 89-97, § 335, 79 Stat. 286, 406 (1965) (amended 1981). The district court answered this question in the affirmative. The judgment of the district court is affirmed substantially for the reasons stated in the Report-Recommendation of Magistrate Ralph W. Smith, Jr., dated December 12, 1984, and the Order of Judge Neal P. McCurn, dated February 9, 1984.