Jack D. Lashley v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an ALJ has a “special duty [to fully develop the record] . . . where the claimant appears without counsel.”
• recognizing a “special duty” to develop the record in the context of an unrepresented inarticulate claimant
• noting that an ALJ has “the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that every claimant receives a full and fair hearing. . . .”
• concluding the ALJ improperly discounted testimony from a claimant’s wife about her husband’s mental impairment that was later confirmed by his treating physicians
• noting that the ALJ need not have “intended to produce an unfair result” in order to fail to satisfy his duty
• criticizing ALJ when hearing was only 25 minutes long and claimant was “only superficially questioned concerning his daily activities and his physical limitations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).