In Re Commitment of Richard Raymond Poltorak v. the State of Texas

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• finding “the ALJ rightly noted” that the psychologist’s opinion that claimant would have “some difficulty” with certain tasks was “vague”
• “Nothing require[s] the ALJ to stick to the exact words” of a medical source’s assessment when formulating the claimant’s RFC
• ‘“Fetting stands for the limited principle that a claimant may not start objecting to unquestioned and uncontradicted VE testimony in federal court after the closure of the administrative record.”
• affirming ALJ cited mental status examinations as evidence contradicting a treating medical source opinion
• a claimant must object or challenge the testimony during the administrative hearing to preserve an objection
• ALJ may reject a doctor’s opinion when it is contradicted by the doctor’s own findings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).