Moss v. Astrue

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the checklist instructs an ALJ “to consider the length, nature, and extent of the treatment relationship, frequency of examination, the physician's specialty, the types of tests performed, and the consistency and supportability of the physician's opinion.”
• holding that the ALJ erred in rejecting the opinion of a physician because the claimant was referred to him by her attorney and failed to address whether 15 the physician’s medical opinions were supported by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory techniques
• finding that the ALJ failed to adequately consider whether the claimant could ambulate effectively based on the same examples from Listing 1.00(B)(2)
• explaining that ALJ’s decision to accept one physician’s opinion over another’s without any consideration of the factors outlined in the regulations is reason for reversal
• noting that an ALJ should “consider the . . . the physician's specialty [and] the types of tests performed”
• noting that “an ALJ cannot disregard a claimant’s limitations in performing household activities”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).