Montgomery v. Green

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that an ALJ’s mischaracterization of a physician’s opinion caused the ALJ to believe the opinion exaggerated the claimant’s limitations
• stating that “[t]here is always a danger when lawyers and judges attempt to interpret medical reports”
• finding that “[t]here is always a danger when lawyers and judges attempt to interpret medical reports”
• finding that undergoing painful and risky procedures in attempt to alleviate pain were “actions that would support the credibility of [her] claims regarding the severity of [her] pain.”
• willingness to undergo “painful and risky procedures” to alleviate pain are actions that support the “credibility of claims regarding the severity of pain”
• remanding where ALJ misread treaters’ opinions and thus mistakenly believed that treaters had exaggerated claimant’s limitations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).