Pamela A. STONE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

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• finding the ALJ erred in failing to 19 consider more recent medical reports showing claimant's foot was “progressively 20 deteriorating”
• finding 2 an ALJ erred in relying on opinions that did not account for a later evaluation showing the 3 claimant’s foot condition was progressively deteriorating
• finding an ALJ erred in 19 relying on opinions that did not account for a later evaluation showing the 20 claimant's foot condition was progressively deteriorating
• remanding because ALJ rejected latest medical opinion, where claimant suffered from 22 disease causing “progressive destruction of the weight-bearing joints in the lower extremities” 23 and record showed “continuing degenerative changes in the joints in” claimant’s foot
• in a case involving a claimant with a worsening condition, holding that medical evaluations prepared several months before hearing are not substantial evidence sufficient to rebut more recent conclusions by a treating doctor
• where a claimant’s condition is progressively deteriorating, the most recent medical report is frequently the most probative

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