Thomas Eads, Jr. v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the correctness of the ALJ’s “decision depends on the evidence that was before him,” and he “cannot be faulted for having failed to weigh evidence never presented to him”
• explaining that if the Council’s decision not to review a case “rests on a mistake of law, such as the determination ... that the evidence newly submitted to the Appeals Council was not material to the disability determination, the court can reverse”
• Appeal Council’s denial of review can be reviewed by the court when the 7 refusal rests on a mistake of law
• “courts may not reverse an administrative law judge’s decision on the basis of evidence first submitted to the Appeals Council.”
• “Eads could have submitted the doctor’s letter to the district court as a basis for requesting [a sentence six] remand. He did not do that either.”
• “The correctness of [the ALJ’s] decision depends on the evidence that was before him. He cannot be faulted for having failed to weigh evidence never presented to him[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).