Hawkins v. Chater

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that absent counsel’s request for a consultative examination, an ALJ is not ordinarily under a duty to -4- order one unless the need is clearly established in the record
• noting that a claimant's \isolated and unsupported comments” are insufficient to \raise the suspicion” of an impairment
• stating that “in a counseled case, the ALJ may ordinarily require counsel to identify the issue or issues requiring further development.”
• stating that “an -4- ALJ should ordinarily be entitled to rely on the claimant’s counsel to structure and present claimant’s case”
• explaining that an ALJ need not “exhaust every possible line of inquiry in an attempt to pursue every potential line of questioning.”
• noting that a claimant’s “isolated and unsupported comments” are insufficient to “raise the suspicion” of an impairment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).