Nesselrode v. Montana

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• explaining that the “institutionalization of the mentally ill is generally reserved for persons who are suicidal, otherwise violent, demented, or (for whatever reason
• explaining that “it doesn’t follow” that a claimant who isn’t institutionalized “is therefore capable of gainful employment”
• finding that the fact that a nurse “is not an ‘acceptable medical source’” was not an adequate justification for the ALJ’s decision to reject the nurse’s report
• explaining that the American Psychiatric Association has eliminated the GAF scale as unreliable
• criticizing but not holding to be improper the AU's acceptance of the vocational expert’s job-numbers testimony based on the unknown underlying data source
• discounting ALJ’s reliance on claimant’s failure to have particular treatment because there was no reason to think that would have been appropriate

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