· 4/19/1974
Rena Sklar Oppenheim v. Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (Now Caspar Weinberger,)
Citations
- 495 F.2d 396
- 1974 U.S. App. LEXIS 9064
How courts have described this case
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- stating that the court must scrutinize the record as a whole to determine whether the conclusions reached are supported by substantial evidence
- stating that the court must scrutinize the record as a whole to determine whether the conclusions reached are supported by substantial evidence
- stating that the court must scrutinize the record as a whole to determine whether the conclusions reached are supported by substantial evidence
- requiring Secretary to consider on remand effect of medical problems considered in combination rather than individually
- remanding decision that claimant could do light and sedentary work as lacking substantial evidence because Social Security Appeals Council ignored certain evidence of impairments affecting claimant’s ability to work
- vacating and remanding because, inter alia, “[t]h[e] expert judgment is neither met nor contradicted by any other expert judgment”
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Judges: Haynsworth, Field, Widener
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