Conte v. McMahon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that discussing only lack of consistency as a reason for diminished weight given to the treating source opinion was sufficient to satisfy the balancing test required by the regulation
• finding no legal error where the ALJ “stress[ed] one factor over others”
• “[substantial evidence exists for the hearing officer’s decision to weigh consistency as the dispositive factor in diminishing the weight of [licensed therapist’s] evaluation.”
• “the hearing officer may opt not to give controlling weight to the treating source if the hearing officer finds the doctor’s opinion inconsistent with other substantial evidence in the record”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).