City of Kent v. Iddens

How courts have described this case

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• noting that ALJ’s duty of explanation is not a “mandate for administrative verbosity or pedantry”
• noting that “uncertainty is not proof, and claimants must prove entitlement”
• relying upon autopsy prosector's follow-up letter in which he established the requisite nexus between the miner's pneumoconiosis and the immediate cause of death (failure to expectorate mucus) to uphold award of benefits
• allowing an ALJ to rely on a doctor’s opinion that rejected a particular diagnosis of pneumo- coniosis because that doctor’s opinion did not necessarily contradict the ALJ’s legal finding of pneumoconiosis
• \the reliability of a given opinion is not necessarily revealed by the forcefulness of the speaker’s language.\
• read- ing a physician’s opinion in its \full context\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).