By: Derek Hawkins//October 15, 2018//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: John G. Barrett v. Nancy A. Berryhill
Case No.: 17-2878
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and SCUDDER and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges.
Focus: ALJ Error – Disability
John Barrett applied for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income based on limitations from bipolar disorder and alcohol addiction. If an administrative law judge (ALJ) had found him disabled, then Barrett would shoulder the burden of showing that his alcoholism was not material to his disability. An ALJ found that he was not disabled, however, even when considering his alcohol addiction, and denied him benefits. The district court agreed, and we affirm.
Affirmed