Hightower v. Godinez

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the ALJ’s error in failing to assign weight to a medical provider’s opinion was harmless
• holding that an argument that is not raised is waived
• explaining that the use of boilerplate language is not problematic when it “is followed by an explanation for rejecting the claimant’s testimony”
• finding that the claimant’s treatments, which included narcotic pain relievers, steroid injections, and major surgery, “belie the ALJ’s conclusion that [the claimant] was treated conservatively.”
• explaining that a court will not remand for further explanation if “can predict with great confidence that the result on remand would be the same”
• explaining that the court “will not remand a case to the ALJ for further explanation if we can predict with great confidence that the result on remand would be the same”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).