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· 2/9/1987

Maxmilliano VILLARREAL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee

Citations

  • 818 F.2d 461
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 5707
  • 17 Soc. Serv. Rev. 754

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that the treating physician’s use of the phrases “heavy labor” or “a lot of stress” provided “qualified opinions, at best, as to the degree of disability”
  • in discounting a claimant’s subjective complaints of disability, ALJ reasonably relied on claimant’s “conservative treatment”
  • “[T]olerance of pain is a highly individual matter and a determination of disability based on pain by necessity depends largely on the credibility of the claimant,” and an ALJ’s credibility finding “should not lightly be discarded.”
  • “[T]olerance of pain is a highly individual matter and a determination of disability based on pain by necessity depends largely on the credibility of the claimant,” and an ALJ’s credibility finding “should not lightly be discarded.”
  • “[T]olerance of pain is a highly individual matter and a determination of disability based on pain by necessity depends largely on the credibility of the claimant,” and an ALJ’s credibility finding “should not lightly be discarded.”
  • “[T]olerance of pain is a highly individual matter and a determination of disability based on pain by necessity depends largely on the credibility of the claimant,” and an ALJ’s credibility finding “should not lightly be discarded.”

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Judges: Engel, Krupansky, Nelson, Per Curiam

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