Sutherland v. Barnhart

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that remand to a new ALJ is appropriate when there is a “clear indication that the ALJ will not apply the appropriate legal standard on remand.”
• remanding to a new ALJ when the original ALJ was overtly hostile towards the plaintiff and plaintiff’s counsel
• remanding to a different ALJ because the ALJ’s conduct gave rise to serious concerns about the fundamental fairness of the review process
• finding remand warranted where the ALJ “ignore[d] parts of the record that are probative of the [plaintiff’s] disability claim”
• remanding to a different ALI appropriate “when the conduct of an ALJ gives rise to serious concerns about the fundamental fairness of the disability review process”
• “It is grounds for remand for the ALJ to ignore parts of the record that are probative of the claimant’s disability claim.” (collecting cases)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).