Richard Haynes v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security

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• holding that ALJ did not have to apply sedentary Grid Rules when the claimant could stand/walk less than required of the full range of light work, but could lift more than the weight required of sedentary work
• explaining that reviewing court may not reweigh evidence or substitute its own judgment for that of ALJ
• explaining that reviewing court may not reweigh evidence or substitute its own judgment for that of ALJ
• explaining that the regulations require ALJs “to consider opinions offered by medical experts” but that they are not “bound by those opinions”
• explaining that in reviewing an ALJ’s decision on appeal, the court is to review the record as a whole but is not to reweigh the evidence or substitute its own judgment for that of the ALJ
• remanding where ALJ used the language at the end of Step 2 without explaining how restrictions were “reflected” in the RFC

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