Maria Lopez v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a decision should be remanded “when it appears that the ALJ has failed to consider relevant and probative evidence which is available to him.”
• holding that “the ALJ has a special duty to protect the rights of a pro se claimant [and] . . . [w]hen the ALJ fails to develop the record fully, he does not fulfill this duty and the claimant is deprived of a fair hearing.”
• finding grounds for remand \when it appears that the ALJ has failed to consider relevant and probative evidence which is available to him\
• \We have remanded cases when it appears that the ALJ has failed to consider relevant and probative evidence which is available to him [or her]\
• “We have remanded cases when it appears that the ALJ has failed to consider relevant and probative evidence which is available to him.”
• “We have remanded cases when it appears that the ALJ has failed to consider relevant and probative evidence which is available to him.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).