Turner v. Astrue

How courts have described this case

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• finding that ALJ properly accorded less than controlling weight to a treating physician’s opinion which was “conclusory in nature and not culled from objective medical evidence”
• finding that ALJ properly accorded less than controlling weight to a treating physician’s opinion which was “cohclusory in nature and not culled from objective medical evidence”
• explaining that the ALJ’s duty to develop the record does not compel the ALJ to seek additional evidence if the record allows him to make a fair decision
• upholding an ALJ’s denial of benefits because claimant’s skill level allowed him to perform at least one of three jobs the VE identified
• “Contrary to Turner’s assertions, the ALJ was under no obligation to specifically enumerate each of the six factors described in the Social Security regulations.”
• first citing Dionne v. Heckler, 585 F. Supp. 1055, 1060 (D. Me. 1984); and then citing Martin v. Apfel, 118 F. Supp. 2d 9, 13 (D.D.C. 2000)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).