Simila v. Astrue

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that an ALJ “need not mention every strand of evidence in her decision”
• reasoning that declining earnings before the onset of a claimant’s alleged disability could support a lack of effort to find work and diminish the claimant’s credibility
• finding that ALJ properly considered conservative treatment in discounting subjective symptom statements
• affirming adverse credibility finding based on claimant’s “relatively conservative” treatment of “various pain medications, several injections, and one physical therapy session”
• affirming an adverse credibility finding based on plaintiff’s “relatively conservative” treatment consisting of “various pain medications, several injections, and one physical therapy session”
• noting the deference given to the administrative factfinder on judicial review, as well as the regulatory guidance instructing the ALJ to consider such evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).