Rohrberg v. Apfel

How courts have described this case

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• awarding benefits where plaintiff \applied for disability benefits almost five years ago. Further delay would only lengthen what has proven a 'painfully slow process.' \
• reversing Commissioner’s decision where, among other things, ALJ failed to take into account evidence that claimant undertook activities intermittently, choosing “when to do them to avoid experiencing severe pain”
• finding “the purpose of the RFC is to determine the effects of the claimant’s impairment on her ability to perform work, including any limitations on that ability resulting from pain”
• “An ALJ is not qualified to assess a claimant’s RFC on the basis of bare medical findings.”
• the ALJ impermissibly relied on bare medical evidence to determine the claimant's residual functional capacity
• Benefits awarded when initial application was filed five years prior to District Court appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).