Heather Browning v. Carolyn Colvin

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “a person capable of working only in sheltered employment is deemed disabled and therefore entitled to receive social security disability benefits”
• explaining that morbid obesity may make a person unable to perform even sedentary jobs
• finding that a person with a BMI above forty is classified as morbidly obese
• noting that administrative law judges' are not permitted to “play doctot”
• noting that a BMI of 38.7 made the plaintiff nearly morbidly obese
• noting that administrative law judges are not permitted to \play doctor\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).