Evelyn Plummer v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security

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• holding that the § 421(h) consultation requirement applies only to cases falling under § 421(a), (c), (g), (i) at the initial and reconsideration levels.”
• recognizing that a practitioner’s opinion may be rejected if there is contradictory medical evidence
• holding that the hypothetical used by the ALJ was appropriate because the ALJ had earlier rejected the excluded limitations as inconsistent with the objective medical evidence in the record as a whole
• stating that an ALJ “must consider all the evidence and give some reason for discounting the evidence she rejects”
• stating that an ALJ “must consider all the evidence and give some reason for discounting the evidence she rejects”
• noting that the ALJ must give some indication what evidence she discounts and why

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