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December 28, 1995 [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]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 ______________________ _________________________
appellant.
Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, Maria Hortensia Rios, ______________ ______________________
Assistant United States Attorney, Robert M. Pekrill, Assistant ___________________
Regional Counsel, and Wayne G. Lewis, Attorney, Social Security ________________
Administration, on brief for appellee.
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Per Curiam. Plaintiff-appellant Angel Torres-Maldonado __________
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- ______
reasoned Opinion and Order dated May 10, 1995.
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