Marion WILSON, Appellant, v. Margaret H. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Appellee

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that an “ALJ erroneously exercised an expertise he did not possess” — there, “in the field of orthopedic medicine”
• “An ALJ may not substitute his own lay opinion for a medical expert’s when evaluating the significance of clinical findings.”
• “[T]he ALJ erroneously exercised an expertise he did not possess in the field of orthopedic medicine.”
• “An ALJ may not substitute his own lay opinion for a medical expert’s when evaluating the significance of clinical findings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).