Hussein v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a treating physician’s assessment must be given controlling weight unless it is “inconsistent with the other substantial evidence in the record.”
• stating that a treating physician’s assessment must be given controlling weight unless it is “inconsistent with the other substantial evidence in the record.”
• “The ALJ is not permitted to ‘make speculative inferences from medical reports[.]’”
• “the Third Circuit also explained that ‘[r]ather than focusing on the doctor’s choice of words [such as ‘disabled’ in the Brownawell case], the ALJ was obligated to examine the substantive evidence on which the physician’s conclusion was based.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).