Detra Pollard v. William Halter, Commissioner of Social Security

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• noting that materiality requires “a reasonable possibility that the new evidence would have influenced the [Commissioner] to decide claimant’s application differently”
• explaining that subsequent evidence of the severity of a condition suggests that the condition may have been more severe in the past than previously thought
• noting that subsequent evidence of the severity of a plaintiff's condition may demonstrate that “during the relevant time period, [the plaintiff's] condition was far more serious than previously thought.”
• determining which version of the SSA’s rules applied to judicial review of an ALJ’s decision
• materiality standard satisfied where new opinion was “likely to affect the ALJ’s consideration of [the] claim”
• remand required where new evidence “may identify additional impairments which could reasonably be presumed to have been present”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).