McIntosh v. Prudential Ins. Co. of Am.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an ALJ’s evaluation of conflicting evidence will survive review so long as it is rationally supported
• noting that the substantial evidence standard only requires an ALJ’s decision rest on rational support
• rejecting a similar challenge to how the ALJ weighed the evidence because the decision was “supported by substantial evidence and free from procedural error”
• stating that “an ALJ’s job is to weigh conflicting evidence”
• “[A]n ALJ’s job is to weigh conflicting evidence, and the loser in such a process is bound to believe that the finder of fact should have been more favorable to his cause.”
• “The substantial-evidence standard, however, asks whether the administrative decision is rationally supported, not whether it is correct (in the sense that federal judges would have reached the same conclusions on the record).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).