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· 9/1/2000

Bonnie Shramek v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security

Citations

  • 226 F.3d 809
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 22364
  • 2000 WL 1234614

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that the court gives an ALJ’s “opinion a commonsensical reading rather than nitpicking at it”
  • noting that the Court should “give the opinion a commonsensical reading rather than nitpicking at it” (citation omitted)
  • explaining that an ALJ’s opinion is given “a commonsensical reading” during an analysis of the opinion for “fatal gaps or contradictions”
  • observing that “we give [an ALJ’s] opinion a commonsensical reading rather than nitpicking at it”
  • observing that “we give [an ALJ’s] opinion a commonsensical reading rather than nitpicking at it”
  • explaining that harmless errors are those that do not ultimately impact the outcome of the determination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Flaum, Rovner, Evans

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