Haag v. Barnhart

How courts have described this case

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• finding it unreasonable for ALJ to reject consulting psychologist’s opinion “based upon the lack of a diagnosis or notation of mental illness by her medical doctors who saw her for specific physical problems”
• “An ALJ is not allowed to make medical findings or indulge in unfounded hunches about the claimant’s medical condition or prospect for improvement.”
• “An ALJ is not allowed to make medical findings or indulge in unfounded hunches about the claimant’s medical condition or prospect for improvement.”
• “[I]t was unreasonable to reject [psychiatrist’s] opinions based upon the lack of a diagnosis or notation of mental illness by her medical doctors who saw her for specific physical problems.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).