Richard Kennedy v. Carolyn W. Colvin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a claimant cannot meet or medically equal Listing 12.05C or D if her IQ score is higher than 70
• finding that listed impairments contain “strict standards because they automatically end the five-step inquiry, before residual functional capacity is even considered”
• finding that listed impairments contain “strict standards because they automatically end the five-step inquiry, before residual functional capacity is even considered”
• explaining that if the ALJ finds a claimant’s impairments meet or equal a listed impairment under Step Three, “the claimant is considered disabled and benefits are awarded, ending the inquiry”
• requiring an ALJ to engage in an equivalency determination only when the claimant presents evidence in an effort to establish equivalence
• “[Step three listings] are purposefully set at a high level of severity because 10 the ‘listings were designed to operate as a presumption of disability that makes further 11 inquiry unnecessary.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).