Joann Reed v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that a claimant “need not prove she is bedridden or completely helpless to be found disabled.”
• explaining that the Eighth Circuit has “never upheld a decision to discount” a checklist on the basis that the form is “deficient ipso facto”
• providing that a reviewing court does not reverse the Commissioner’s decision “‘merely because substantial evidence would have supported an opposite decision’”
• holding the ALJ’s explanation inadequate where it failed to describe how the claimant’s ability to remember short instructions was inconsistent with the inability to concentrate for long periods
• holding the ALJ’s explanation inadequate where it failed to describe how the claimant’s ability to remember short instructions was inconsistent with the inability to concentrate for long periods
• holding an ALJ may determine that a claimant’s subjective complaints are not credible when there is objective medical evidence to the contrary; but, an “ALJ may not discount a claimant’s subjective complaints solely because they are unsupported by objective medical evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).