Leslie Sun v. Carolyn Colvin, Acting Cmsnr

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• determining that new evidence submitted to Appeals Council was significant and cast doubt on ALJ’s findings such that remand was warranted so that the ALJ could reconcile the new evidence “with other conflicting and supporting evidence in the record”
• limiting the requirement that the AC discuss new evidence to cases where it grants review
• “[T]he court ... 'may not reweigh the evidence or substitute its judgment for the Commissioner’s.”
• “[T]he court . . . may not reweigh the evidence or substitute its judgment for the Commissioner’s.”
• \The regulations do not require the AC to provide a discussion of the newly submitted evidence or give reasons for denying review\
• “[T]he court often focuses on the ALJ’s questioning of the claimant in order to determine whether the ALJ gathered the information necessary to make a disability determination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).