Ramona Vega v. Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant

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• explaining that a claimant’s ability to communicate enough to perform her hotel job does not necessarily mean that she was literate or able to communicate in English
• finding even a brief exchange in English between an ALJ and a claimant “is not a substitute for a determination on the question of ability to communicate in English.”
• brief exchange in English during hearing was not substitute for determination as to plaintiff’s ability to communicate in English
• “The absence of findings by the ALJ on the questions of literacy and ability to communicate in English is crucial . . . .”
• “But the Secretary cannot have it both ways. She cannot escape what may be the conclusive effect of the rules in this case while depending on them to guide and control the discretion of the ALJs in other cases.”
• \But the Secretary cannot have it both ways. She cannot escape what may be the conclusive effect of the rules in this case while depending on them to guide and control the discretion of the ALJs in other cases.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).