Bauer v. Astrue

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that person whose chronic mental illness is treated with heavy drugs likely will experience better and worse days
• concluding that an ALJ’s focus on treatment notes with “hopeful remarks” and functional activities of daily living in discounting the opinions of treating sources about the severity of bipolar disorder “suggests a lack of understanding of bipolar disorder”
• stating that when the treating physician’s opinion is not given controlling weight, “the checklist comes into play”
• noting that even if a claimant was well enough to work half of the time, she could still not hold down a full-time job
• noting that “the checklist comes into play” once an opinion is not given controlling weight
• noting that “the checklist comes into play” once an opinion is not given controlling weight

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).