Kyle Alaura v. Carolyn Colvin

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that ALJs are entitled to rely on national job numbers alone
• expressing skepticism that 200,000 people in the United States work addressing mail by hand or typewriter
• finding 200,000 jobs nationally a significant number, stating “[w]hy local and state statistics are included is unclear, since if there is a significant number of jobs that the applicant for benefits can perform anywhere in the United States he is deemed not disabled”
• the equal distribution approach “assum[es] that each narrow category has the same number of jobs as each other narrow category – which is preposterous.”
• “if there is a significant number of jobs that the applicant for benefits can perform anywhere in the United States he is deemed not disabled”
• “[I]f there is a significant number of jobs that the applicant for benefits can perform anywhere in the United States he is deemed not disabled.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).