Michele A. Herrmann v. Carolyn W. Colvin

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that gripping is a form of handling and “is an essential manipulative activity in a great many jobs”
• explaining that “if there is a substantial number of [sic] jobs in the nation, the applicant’s claim fails, no matter how few there are in his locality or region.”
• stating that the VE “didn’t explain how impressions from unspecified past experience and ‘knowledge’ could enable him to determine numbers of particular jobs” or “reveal what surveys he had relied upon and what they had shown”
• finding lack of support in doctor’s “sparse treatment notes or by examination findings made by other physicians” insufficient grounds to disbelieve evidence from a treating source
• “[H]andling . . . [is] required in almost all jobs. Significant limitations of reaching or handling, therefore, may eliminate a large number of occupations a person could otherwise do.”
• rejecting argument by the Commissioner’s attorney to overlook the ALJ’s misstatement as scrivener’s error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).