Ivan N. Pettit v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner, Social Security Administration

How courts have described this case

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• vacating judgment and remanding to district court “because the ALJ’s factual findings are insufficient for our review.”
• remanding for further consideration “because the ALJ’s factual findings are insufficient for [the court’s] review”
• remanding the matter, and directing the ALJ to “address more specifically” the claimant’s claim that he is disabled, but also recognizing the claimant has the burden of showing his alcoholism is not material to his disability
• “When considering whether the ALJ properly denied social security benefits to a claimant, we determine . . . whether the ALJ’s decision is based on legal error.”
• alcoholism will not be found \material\ to the finding of disability if the disability remains after the claimant stops drinking.
• claimant has initial burden of showing that alcoholism or drug addiction is not material to finding of disability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).