Falge v. Apfel

How courts have described this case

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• holding that new evidence submitted only to the Appeals Council is not part of the administrative record for judicial review and citing cases
• holding that new evidence submitted only to the Appeals Council is not part of the administrative record for judicial review
• stating that, when the Appeals Council denies review, the decision of the ALJ becomes the final decision of the Commissioner
• noting that although the physician’s report was prepared after the ALJ’s hearing, the opinions set out in the report appeared to have been based on medical examinations and tests conducted before the ALJ’s decision
• when a plaintiff challenges an ALJ’s decision, courts “look only to the evidence actually presented to the ALJ”
• “[W]hen the [Appeals Council] has denied review, we will look only to the evidence actually presented to the ALJ in determining whether the ALJ’s decision is supported by substantial evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).