Kline v. Cofield

How courts have described this case

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• finding no error where the ALJ relied on a non-examining physician’s opinion that was “supported by . . . ample medical evidence”
• finding no error in ALJ’s explanation for giving little weight to “other source” opinion because it was not supported by the record
• finding no error where the ALJ relied on a non-examining physician’s opinion that was “supported by . . . ample medical evidence”
• An ALJ is “free to decide that the opinions of ‘other sources’...are entitled to no weight or Jittle weight,” but “those decisions should be explained.”
• An ALJ is “free to decide that the opinions of ‘other sources’... entitled to no weight or little weight,” but “those decisions should be explained.”
• the Commissioner is free to decide that the opinions of “other sources” are entitled to little or no weight, so long as those decisions are explained

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).