Roscoe Simms v. Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• noting that an ALJ must “sufficiently explain[] the weight he [or she] has given to obviously probative exhibits”
• reversing the SSA’s denial of an application for disability benefits because the ALJ “offered no reason for crediting the consulting physicians over” the treating physician
• “[T]he ALJ, however, offered no reason for crediting the consulting physicians over [the treating physician], who had examined appellant regularly since 1978.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).