Heckler v. Campbell

Heckler v. Campbell
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 28, 1983 Decided May 16, 1983
Full case name	Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services v. Campbell
Citations	461 U.S. 458 (more) 103 S. Ct. 1952; 76 L. Ed. 2d 66; 1983 U.S. LEXIS 161; 51 U.S.L.W. 4561
Holding
The Court reversed the Second circuit saying that “[w]here the statute expressly entrusts the Secretary with the responsibility for implementing a provision by regulation, review is limited to determining whether the regulations promulgated exceeded the Secretary’s statutory authority and whether they are arbitrary and capricious.”
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	Powell, joined by Burger, Brennan, White, Blackmun, Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor
Concurrence	Brennan
Concur/dissent	Marshall
Laws applied
Social Security Act

Heckler v. Campbell, 461 U.S. 458 (1983), is a United States Supreme Court case concerning whether the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services could rely on published medical-vocational guidelines to determine a claimant’s right to Social Security benefits.^[1][2]