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· 3/24/1987

Nicasio RODRIGUEZ PAGAN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant, Appellee

Citations

  • 819 F.2d 1
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 6507
  • 17 Soc. Serv. Rev. 783

How courts have described this case

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

  • affirming the Secre tary’s denial of benefits despite two treating physicians who found claimant disabled where substantial medical evidence supported a third physician’s contrary report
  • affirming ALJ's decision to discredit opinions from two treating physicians where they “relied excessively on claimant's subjective complaints, rather than objective medical findings”
  • explaining courts “must affirm the [ALJ’s] resolution, even if the record arguably could justify a different conclusion, so long as it is supported by substantial evidence”
  • courts “must affirm the [Commissioner’s] resolution, even if the record arguably could justify a different conclusion, so long as it is supported by substantial evidence.”
  • “We must affirm the [agency’s] resolution, even if the record arguably could justify a different conclusion, so long as it is supported by substantial evidence.”
  • the court must affirm the ALJ’s findings even if the record could arguably justify a different conclusion if the findings are supported by substantial evidence

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Judges: Coffin, Bownes, Breyer

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