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Brown v. Barnhart

Citations

  • 370 F. Supp. 2d 286
  • 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9884
  • 2005 WL 1231911

How courts have described this case

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  • reversing and remanding because the ALJ did not apply the revised regulation to the applicant’s claim
  • reversing on grounds of ALJ’s failure to apply updated listings, which “deprived Mr. Brown of the opportunity to prove that his condition ‘meets or equals a listed impairment’” at step three
  • noting that while the court can “affirm, modify, or reverse the decision of the agency, “with or without remanding the cause for a rehearing[,] ... it is the role of the ALJ, not the courts, to make findings of fact and to resolve conflicts in the evidence” ”
  • noting that while the court can “affirm, modify, or reverse the decision of the agency, “with or without remanding the cause for a rehearing[,] . . . it is the role of the ALJ, not the courts, to make findings of fact and to resolve conflicts in the evidence”
  • finding a claim “pending” until the ALJ “issued [a] final decision”
  • remanding where ALJ failed to apply revised version of Listings

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Judges: Sullivan

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