Mary Hope CASIAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-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 the ALJ is “the individual optimally positioned to observe and assess witness credibility.”
• concluding courts do not “reweigh the evidence” and only determine whether substantial evidence supports agency decision
• deferring to ALJ’s credibility assessment where ALJ properly considered claimant’s testimony in light of record evidence
• noting ALJ is “optimally positioned to observe and assess witness credibility”
• ‘We defer to the ALJ as trier of fact, the individual optimally positioned to observe and assess witness credibility.”
• “In evaluating the appeal, we neither reweigh the evidence nor substitute our judgment for that of the agency.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).