Jackie McBrayer v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[A]n ALJ is free . . . to choose between properly submitted medical _| opinions.”
• “The ALJ is not permitted to substitute his own expertise or view of the medical proof for the treating physician’s opinion or for any competent medical opinion.”
• “The ALJ is not permitted to substitute his own expertise or view of the medical proof for the treating physician’s opinion or for any competent medical opinion.”
• “[T]he ALJ cannot arbitrarily substitute [the ALJ’s] own judgment for competent medical opinion”
• “[T]he ALJ cannot arbitrarily substitute his own judgment for competent medical opinion.”
• “[T]he ALJ cannot arbitrarily substitute his own judgment for competent medical opinion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).