Lockard v. Apfel

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing and remanding for calculation of benefits where “it would be virtually impossible for [the ALJ] to find against [the] plaintiff upon remand”
• reversing a denial of disability benefits because the ALJ incorrectly applied legal standards to a fully developed record at the final stage of the five-step process
• reversal is appropriate where “the administrative record has been fully developed and new facts would not be explored on remand[]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).