Shauger v. Astrue

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a reviewing court “is confined to the rationales offered by the ALJ and asks whether the ALJ's decision is supported by substantial evidence” (internal citations omitted)
• explaining that “good reasons” for not seeking medical treatment may include “an inability to afford treatment”
• finding that an ALJ “must first 24 explore the claimant’s reasons for the lack of medical care before drawing a negative 25 inference.”
• stating that “an ALJ must first explore the claimant’s reasons for the lack of medical care before drawing a negative inference”
• noting that the ALJ must first explore a claimant’s reasons for a lack of medical care before drawing a negative inference
• stating that “an ALJ must first explore the claimant's reasons for the lack of medical care before drawing a negative inference”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).