Norbert J. Skarbek v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that an ALJ’s error was harmless when it “would not affect the outcome of the case”
• concluding that the ALJ had indirectly considered plaintiff’s obesity by crediting doctors’ opinions that considered his obesity
• holding that a diagnosis is “factored indirectly into [an] ALJ’s decision” when the ALJ adopts a physician’s opinion and that opinion considers the diagnosis
• concluding that the ALJ was entitled to discount an opinion when the physician did not identify medical evidence that would support the greater limitation
• holding that the ALJ’s failure to even mention obesity not enough to warrant remand where Claimant “does not explain how his obesity would have affected the ALJ’s five-step analysis”
• holding that the ALJ’s failure to even mention obesity not enough to warrant remand where Claimant “does not explain how his obesity would have affected the ALJ’s five-step analysis”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).