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· 4/12/2011

Helen Mining Co. v. Director OWCP

Citations

  • 650 F.3d 248
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 7441
  • 2011 WL 1366355

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an administrative law judge’s “reference to the preamble to the regulations . . . unquestionably supports the reasonableness of his decision to assign less weight to [an expert’s] opinion”
  • noting that “[t]he ALJ gave less weight” to the opinions of an employer’s expert because it was “inconsistent with 20 C.F.R. § 718.202(a)(1)-(4) and with the preamble to the regulations”
  • “The ALJ’s reference to the preamble to the regulations . . . unquestionably supports the reasonableness of his decision to assign less weight to [an expert’s] opinion.”

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Judges: Hardiman, Greenaway, Nygaard

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