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· 8/22/2006

Tommy J. McClanahan v. Commissioner of Social Security

Citations

  • 474 F.3d 830
  • 193 F. App'x 422
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 32355
  • 2006 WL 3951833

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  • holding a treating physician’s examination date is an appropriate disability onset when the overall evidence of record supports a nondisability finding before that date
  • explaining that “ ‘[ojnly those specific objections to the magistrate’s report made to the district court will be preserved for appellate review; making some objections but failing to raise others will not preserve all the objections a party may have’ ”
  • “During the sequential evaluation, if the claimant is found to be conclusively disabled or not disabled, the disability determination is made, and the inquiry is ended.”
  • finding the plaintiff could not complain about the substance of the vocational expert’s testimony when counsel failed to cross examine the expert on the matter during the administrative hearing
  • noting the substantial evidence standard allows considerable latitude to ALJ’s because it presupposes “there is a ‘zone of choice’ within which the Commissioner can act, without the fear of court interference”
  • noting the substantial evidence standard allows considerable latitude to ALJ’s because it presupposes “there is a ‘zone of choice’ within which the Commissioner can act, without the fear of court interference’

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Judges: Batchelder, McKeague, Ackerman

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