Spivey v. Rhodeisland

How courts have described this case

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• holding that though its use is not enjoined, a vocational expert must rely on more than just the equal distribution method
• recognizing that the “agency’s regulations do not mandate a precise count of job numbers”
• emphasizing that the Social Security Administration is long overdue to develop a modernized, reliable, and data-driven system for estimating job numbers
• acknowledging that there is “no way to avoid uncertainty” in arriving at job number estimates
• noting that “it does not take much knowledge of job markets to know that . . . certain jobs may exist in large numbers.”
• noting that the DOT does not provide “an estimate of how many of those positions exist in the national economy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).