
USCA1 Opinion

	




                                [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT                                 ____________________        No. 97-1185                                     JOANN CARON,                                Plaintiff, Appellant,                                          v.                           SHIRLEY S. CHATER, COMMISSIONER,                           SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION,                                 Defendant, Appellee.                                 ____________________                     APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT                          FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS                 [Hon. Frank H. Freedman, Senior U.S. District Judge]                                          __________________________                                 ____________________                                        Before                               Selya, Boudin and Stahl,                                   Circuit Judges.                                   ______________                                 ____________________            Francis Lafayette on brief for appellant.            _________________            Donald  K.  Stern,  United  States  Attorney,  Karen  L.  Goodwin,            _________________                              __________________        Assistant  United   States  Attorney,  and  Sara   Gardiner  Kilkenny,                                                    _________________________        Assistant Regional  Counsel, Social Security  Administration, on brief        for appellee.                                 ____________________                                  September 3, 1997                                 ____________________                      Per Curiam.   We have examined the  parties' briefs                      __________            and  the record  on appeal.   Although  we have  considerable            doubt  whether  the  district  court  had  jurisdiction,  the            Commissioner's decision is adequately supported, so we see no            need  to reach  the jurisdictional  issue in  this case.   We            affirm the order  of the district  court, dated November  27,            1996, essentially for the reasons given in the district court            Memorandum  of  the  same  date.    We  would  add  only  the            following.                      Claimant  argues   the  Administrative   Law  Judge            ("ALJ")  improperly  used  "the Grid"  (20  C.F.R.  Part 404,            Subpart P,  App. 2)  in  evaluating claimant's  nonexertional            limitations.   This court has  noted use of "the  Grid" alone            may  be  improper  in   some  cases  involving  nonexertional            limitations.  Ortiz  v. Secretary of  Health & Human  Servs.,                          ______________________________________________            890  F.2d 520,  524-24 (1st  Cir. 1989).   But  here the  ALJ            followed  the rule  from Ortiz  by using  the testimony  of a                                     _____            vocational expert in addition to using "the Grid." Id.  Thus,                                                               ___            the ALJ's use of "the Grid" was not improper.                      Claimant also argues the ALJ failed to evaluate her            subjective  complaints  of  pain.    While  a  more  detailed            analysis  of those complaints would have been preferable, see                                                                      ___            Frustaglia v.  Secretary of Health  & Human Servs.,  829 F.2d            __________________________________________________            192, 195 (1st Cir.  1987), we have examined the record and we                                         -2-            conclude  the ALJ had  ample support for  his conclusion that            the claimant's subjective complaints were not credible.                      AFFIRMED.                      _________                                         -3-
