Hodes v. Apfel

How courts have described this case

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• finding that ALJ failed to fully and fairly develop the record where he failed to question plaintiff about alleged psychological problems and failed to explore critical ambiguities in the record
• remanding case where ALJ collected an abundance of medical evidence “but held a perfunctory hearing during which he failed to adequately probe into the evidence”
• remanding case where ALJ collected an abundance of medical evidence “but held a perfunctory hearing during which he failed to adequately probe into the evidence”
• “Ensuring valid waiver of counsel is a paramount concern of the legal system....”
• “Thus, once again, the Commissioner has failed to satisfy the Thompson requirements, rendering the notice provided to the claimant invalid.”
• “If conflicting medical evidence is present, the SSA has the responsibility of resolving the conflict[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).