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· 7/17/1990

Thomas E. DIXON, Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Appellee

Citations

  • 905 F.2d 237

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that an impairment is not disabling where the claimant “worked with his impairments over a period of years without any worsening of his condition”
  • “Dixon worked with his impairments over a period of years without any worsening of his condition. Thus, he cannot claim them as disabling.”
  • “[The claimant] worked with his impairments over a period of years without any worsening of his condition. Thus, he cannot claim them as disabling.”
  • “If an ALJ explicitly discredits a claimant’s testimony and gives a good reason for doing so, we will normally defer to that judgment.”
  • if ALJ explicitly discredits claimant's testimony and gives good reason for doing so, court normally defers to ALJ's judgment
  • if ALJ explicitly discredits claimant&s testimony and gives good reason for doing so, this court normally defers to ALJ&s judgment

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Judges: Arnold, Gibson, Wollman

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