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    This document is a summary of a court case regarding an appeal of a denial of disability benefits. A three-judge panel affirmed the district court's decision to uphold the Commissioner's denial of benefits to Reinaldo Rivera. The panel found, like the district court and magistrate judge before it, that the reasons given for denying benefits were valid.

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    Filed: 1999-05-27 Precedential Status: Precedential Docket: 98-2134

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    This document is a summary of a court case regarding an appeal of a denial of disability benefits. A three-judge panel affirmed the district court's decision to uphold the Commissioner's denial of benefits to Reinaldo Rivera. The panel found, like the district court and magistrate judge before it, that the reasons given for denying benefits were valid.

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    USCA1 Opinion

    [NOT FOR PUBLICATION NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]


    United States Court of Appeals
    For the First Circuit

    No. 98-2134

    REINALDO RIVERA,

    Plaintiff, Appellant,

    v.

    KENNETH S. APFEL,
    COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY,

    Defendant, Appellee.

    APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

    FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

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

    Before

    Selya, Circuit Judge,


    Bownes, Senior Circuit Judge,
    and Stahl, Circuit Judge.

    Salvador Medina De La Cruz on brief for appellant.


    Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, Lilliam Mendoza Torro,
    Assistant United States Attorney, and Nancy B. Salafia, Assistant
    Regional Counsel, Social Security Administration, on brief for
    appellee.

    May 26, 1999

    Per Curiam.

    Reinaldo Rivera appeals from the final

    decision of the Commissioner of Social Security denying him


    disability benefits.

    After careful review of the briefs and

    administrative and district court records, we affirm,


    substantially for the reasons given by the district court in
    its decision dated June 30, 1998 and by the magistrate judge in
    a report and recommendation dated April 16, 1998, which the
    district court approved and adopted.
    Affirmed.

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