Court Opinion

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USCA1 Opinion

	

        December 28, 1995       [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]

                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

                           

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        No. 95-1598 

                               ANGEL TORRES-MALDONADO,

                                Plaintiff, Appellant,

                                          v.

                       SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,

                                 Defendant, Appellee.

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                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

                   [Hon. Salvador E. Casellas, U.S. District Judge]
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                                        Before

                                Cyr, Boudin and Lynch,
                                   Circuit Judges.
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            Raymond Rivera Esteves and Juan A.  Hernandez Rivera on brief  for
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        appellant.
            Guillermo  Gil,  United States  Attorney,  Maria  Hortensia  Rios,
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        Assistant  United  States  Attorney,  Robert  M.  Pekrill,   Assistant
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        Regional Counsel,  and  Wayne  G.  Lewis,  Attorney,  Social  Security
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        Administration, on brief for appellee.

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                 Per Curiam.  Plaintiff-appellant  Angel Torres-Maldonado
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            appeals from  the  district court's  decision  affirming  the

            denial of disability benefits by  the Secretary of Health and

            Human  Services.   We  have carefully  reviewed the  parties'

            briefs and the record on appeal.  Appellant's claims that the

            ALJ  failed to consider his allegations  of disabling pain or

            failed to  consider the cumulative effect  of his impairments

            are belied by the  record.  We have  also concluded that,  in

            presenting a hypothetical to  the vocational expert (VE), the

            ALJ's misspoken reference to  an onset date of 1991,  did not

            mislead  the  VE  as  the  description  of  impairments  that

            followed  referred to  medical evidence  within  the relevant

            time period.

                 We affirm  on the  basis of  the district  court's well-
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            reasoned Opinion and Order dated May 10, 1995.

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