· 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
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- 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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