Short v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing examiner’s right to discredit treating physician’s opinion but remanding for explanation where examiner did not mention opinions of those physicians
• noting that any doubts as to causation “are to be resolved in favor of the claimant”
• “Under the law of the District of Columbia, there is a preference for the testimony of treating physicians over doctors retained for litigation purposes.”
• “[T]he doctrine of claim preclusion will operate to prevent the same parties from relitigation of not only those matters actually litig ated but also those which might have been litigated in the first proceeding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).