Island Creek Coal Company v. Dennis E. Compton Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor

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• holding that the ALJ must weigh all relevant evidence together, rather than analyzing the evidence separately depending on its type
• holding that the ALJ must weigh all relevant evidence together, rather than analyzing the evidence separately depending on its type
• overturning an ALJ’s decision because he failed to “weigh the X-ray evidence with the medical opinion evidence”
• requiring ALJs to consider all relevant evidence in reaching their determinations
• \An ALJ may not discredit a physician's opinion solely because the physician did not examine the claimant.\
• “Evidence that does not establish medical pneumoconiosis ... should not necessarily be treated as evidence weighing against a finding of legal pneumoconiosis.”

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