Israel Lopez Lopez v. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

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• holding that a claimant's actual chances of being hired is irrelevant to the step five analysis and must be disregarded
• allowing appeal from remand requiring Secretary of HEW to show claimant had a “realistic opportunity” of being hired for available positions
• “It is not necessary that the Secretary demonstrate that a particular claimant would actually be hired, or even that there is a realistic chance of his being so.”

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