George Dobrowolsky v. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary, Health, Education, and Welfare

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that an ALJ must “assume a more active role when the claimant is unrepresented”
• noting that an ALJ must “assume a more active role when the claimant is unrepresented”
• discussing “the responsibility of the ALJ to assume a more active role when the claimant is unrepresented”
• “[T]o say that [the] decision is supported by substantial evidence approaches an abdication of the court’s duty to scrutinize the record as a whole to determine whether the conclusions reached are rational.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).