Mason v. Letcher Coal & Coke Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that ALJ inappropriately mischaracterized and relied on plaintiff’s daily activities in rejecting treating physician’s opinion
• collecting cases recognizing the differences between caring for one’s children at home and performing substantial gainful employment in the competitive workplace
• “There is a critical difference between activities of daily living (which one can do at his own pace when he is able) and keeping a full-time job.”
• remand required where the ALJ failed to recognize that there are “differences between being a parent, caring for one’s children at home, and performing substantial gainful employment in the competitive workplace on a regular and continuing basis’
• “The ALJ furthermore failed to recognize the differences between being a parent, caring for one’s children at home, and performing substantial gainful employment in the competitive workplace on a regular and continuing basis” . . . . (internal quotation marks omitted
• “A corollary to the treating physician rule is the so-called ‘good reasons rule,’ which is based on the regulations specifying that ‘the Commissioner “will always give good reasons”’ for the weight given to a treating source opinion.” (quoting Halloran, 362 F.3d at 32)

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