Seavey v. Social Security

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• ruling that “while pro se pleadings are to be liberally construed, the policy of liberal construction cannot plausibly justify a party’s failure to file a habeas petition on time”
• explaining that a sentence four remand may be ordered where the SSA's decision is not supported by \substantial evidence\
• explaining that “[a]ll five steps are not applied to every applicant, as the determination may be concluded at any step along the process”
• explaining that “[a]ll five steps are not applied to every applicant, as the determination may be concluded at any step along the process.”
• noting that the Commissioner \has the burden at Step 5 of coming forward with evidence of specific jobs in the national economy that the applicant can still perform\
• holding that “the court can order the agency to provide the relief it denied only in the unusual case in which the underlying facts and law are such that the agency has no discretion to act in any manner other than to award or to deny benefits”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).