Langley v. Barnhart

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an ALJ’s reasons for rejecting an opinion must be “sufficiently specific” to allow for meaningful judicial review
• holding that an ALJ may choose to reject a treating physician’s opinion only on the basis of contradictory medical evidence
• holding that ALJ may not reject a treating physician’s opinion based on speculation
• holding that ALJ may not reject a treating physician’s opinion based on speculation
• stating that the administrative law judge’s reasons for assessing a treating source’s medical opinion must be sufficiently specific for meaningful judicial review
• explaining that an ALJ’s reasons for assessing a treating source’s medical opinion must be sufficiently specific for meaningful judicial review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).