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· 4/9/2015

Brenda Mitze v. Carolyn Colvin

Citations

  • 782 F.3d 879
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 5768
  • 2015 WL 1570153

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that ALJ had not denied that claimant was in pain but instead “didn’t believe that the pain was severe enough to disable her to the extent she claimed”
  • finding that turning down other treatment options is “another reason to think she may have been exaggerating her symptoms”
  • noting that ALJ had not denied that claimant was in pain but instead “didn’t believe that the pain was severe enough to disable her to the extent she claimed”
  • finding ALJ permissibly considered travel among activities that undermined claimant’s subjective complaints
  • \[Plaintiff] turned down other treatment options as well-still another reason to think she may have been exaggerating her symptoms.\
  • claimant’s decision to “turn[] down other treatment options [is] another reason to think she may have been exaggerating her symptoms”

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Judges: Posner, Easterbrook, Tinder

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