Kirk v. Secretary of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• the grid only applies if claimant is capable of performing a wide range of jobs at the designated level
• one examining physician concluded that the claimant's symptoms \could not be explained 'on the basis of any organic pathology' \
• “Thus, if the nonexertional limitation restricts a claimant’s performance of a full range of work at the appropriate residual functional capacity level, nonexertional limitations must be taken into account and a non-guideline determination made.”
• “[I]f the characteristics of the claimant do not identically match the description in the grid, the grid is only used as a guide to the disability determination.”
• upholding regulations against a host of statutory and constitutional attacks

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