Punzio v. Astrue

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an ALJ must provide a “sound explanation” for rejecting a treating source’s opinion
• holding that “the fact that relevant evidence has been solicited by the claimant or her representative is not a sufficient justification to belittle or ignore that evidence”
• holding that an ALJ could not “cherry-pick” the record to reach his desired outcome
• stating that “[t]he claimant bears the burden of submitting medical evidence establishing [his] impairments and [his] residual functional capacity.”
• finding that a temporary “snapshot of any single moment” shows little about a claimant’s “overall condition”
• explaining that a treating physician “may bend over backwards to assist a patient in obtaining benefits”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).