Donna J. Clifford v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security

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• holding that an ALJ must not substitute her own judgment for a physician’s opinion without relying on other medical evidence or authority in the record
• holding that ALJ should have been alerted by “numerous references in the record” to the claimant’s weight problem
• holding that minimal daily activities do not demonstrate that a claimant is capable of performing substantial physical activity
• recognizing that failure to provide good reasons for discrediting a treating physician’s opinion is grounds for remand
• recognizing that an ALJ must “minimally articulate his reasons for crediting or rejecting evidence of disability”
• holding that “minimal daily activities . . . do not establish that a person is capable of engaging in substantial physical activity”

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