Travis RIPLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that new evidence from the claimant’s back surgery, which occurred after the ALJ’s decision, was new and material
• holding that good cause was shown because a claimant physician’s diagnosis was not available during the initial hearings
• holding that an ALJ may not— without opinions from medical experts—derive the applicant's RFC based solely on the evidence of his claimed medical conditions
• holding that instead of relying on his or her own interpretation of the medical evidence, the ALJ should request a “medical source statement” describing types of work the claimant is still capable of performing despite his condition
• holding that prejudice is required to reverse on a Ripley error
• stating that although medical source statement is usually desirable, “[t]he absence of such a statement … does not, in itself, make the record incomplete”

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