Homer PENNY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that when pain takes a case out of the grids, the ALJ should call upon a vocational expert for help making the disability determination
• noting that a district court may abuse its discretion not to remand for benefits when 3 all of these conditions are met
• discussing that the ALJ erred where he relied on a sole 24 medical opinion for the determination that a claimant could perform sedentary work and that 25 opinion, in turn, relied solely on medical records from outside the period of disability
• “Without a personal medical evaluation it is almost impossible to assess the residual 9 functional capacity of any individual.”
• “Without a personal medical 22 evaluation it is almost impossible to assess the residual functional capacity of any individual.”
• “the Appeals Council considered this information and it became part of the record we are required to review as a whole”

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