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· 8/4/2011

McCoy v. Astrue

Citations

  • 648 F.3d 605
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 16024
  • 2011 WL 3330504

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding an ALJ must order examination and tests only if the evidence presented does not “give sufficient medical evidence to determine whether the claimant is disabled”
  • requiring ALJ to order medical examinations and tests “only if the medical records presented to him do not give sufficient medical evidence to determine whether the claimant is disabled”
  • during April 2020 appointment the Claimant reported he was feeling and doing fairly well and while the gym closing made him a little moody and irritable, he had bought some equipment to work out at home and that was helping him
  • in making an RFC determination, “we do not require an ALJ to mechanically list and reject every possible limitation”
  • “A claimant’s RFC represents the most he can do despite the combined effects of all of his credible limitations and must be based on all credible evidence.”
  • “A claimant’s [residual functional capacity] represents the most he can do despite the combined effects of all of his credible limitations and must be based on all credible evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Murphy, Beam, Colloton

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