Bates v. Barnhart

How courts have described this case

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• reversing the ALJ’s decision that blended discussion of medical evidence and evidence he used to make his credibility assessment at step three, because “determinations at step three must be made purely on the medical evidence”
• The step three “determination of medical equivalency…must be based solely on medical evidence,” such as symptoms, signs, and laboratory findings.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).