Elmer D. Muncy v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “a person’s IQ is presumed to remain stable over time in the absence of any evidence of a change in claimant’s intellectual functioning” and collecting cases
• presuming that a person’s IQ remain stable over time in the absence of any change in intellectual functioning
• holding an individual’s IQ “is presumed to remain stable over time in the absence of any evidence of a change in . . . intellectual functioning.”
• presuming 22 a person’s IQ remain stable over time in the absence of any change in intellectual functioning
• “[T]he improvement in the physical condition [must] relate[] to [the] claimant’s ability to work.” (quotation omitted)
• “Mental retardation is not normally a condition that improves as an affected person ages,” and IQ is “presumed to remain stable over time”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).