Butler, Joan S. v. Barnhart, Jo Anne B.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the “substantial evidence” standard requires review of the record to determine if it substantiates “the story the agency’s decision would have it tell”
• stating that RFC “is a ‘function-by-function’ inquiry based on all of the relevant evidence of a claimant’s ability to do work”
• indicating that the court’s evaluation of an applicant’s pain incorporates not only the applicant’s statements about his pain, but also any other available evidence
• noting that the claimant bears the burden on the first four steps, whereas the Administration bears the burden on the fifth step
• finding that the district court’s role is not to reweigh the evidence but only to determine whether the ALJ’s findings are “based on substantial evidence and a correct application of the law”
• reversing and remanding when “the ALJ’s hypothetical question [to the vocational expert] failed to include [the claimant’s] physical limitations regarding lifting, reaching and stooping”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).