Allen F. Williams v. Commissioner of Social Security

The Honorable Robert H. Cleland, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of*
Michigan, sitting by designation.
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File Name: 06a0781n.06
Filed: October 19, 2006
No. 06-5250
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
ALLEN F. WILLIAMS,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY,
Defendant-Appellee.
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ON APPEAL FROM THE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT
COURT FOR THE EASTERN
DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE
M E M O R A N D U M
O P I N I O N
BEFORE: KEITH and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges; and CLELAND, District Judge.*
PER CURIAM. Allen F. Williams appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment
in favor of the Commissioner of Social Security (the “Commissioner”), affirming the
Commissioner’s decision to deny Williams’s application for supplemental security income and
disability insurance benefits. The parties waived oral argument on appeal.
We “must affirm the Commissioner’s conclusions absent a determination that the
Commissioner has failed to apply the correct legal standards or has made findings of fact
unsupported by substantial evidence in the record.” Longworth v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., 402 F.3d
591, 595 (6th Cir. 2005) (citations omitted); see also 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) (“The findings of the
Commissioner of Social Security as to any fact, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be

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conclusive . . . .”). Having carefully considered the record on appeal, the briefs of the parties, and
the applicable law, we conclude that the Commissioner applied the correct legal standards in arriving
at a decision supported by substantial evidence. Accordingly, we affirm summary judgment for the
Commissioner for the reasons stated more fully in the district court’s memorandum opinion filed on
January 11, 2006.

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