U.S. Bank National Association v. Jim A. Gordon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “it was not improper for the ALJ to highlight [claimant’s] ‘normal’ exam results,” despite claimant’s fibromyalgia diagnosis
• holding that the courts “normally defer to an ALJ’s credibility determination” and that an “ALJ may disbelieve subjective testimony of pain if inconsistencies exist in the evidence as a whole”
• holding that where the ALJ did not rely solely on “objective evidence” in assessing a claimant’s fibromyalgia symptoms but also referenced the claimant’s testimony on her daily activities and allegations of pain, the claimant’s “objective-evidence challenge” was without merit
• explaining that an ALJ’s opinion must be “clear enough to allow for appropriate judicial review.”
• explaining that an ALJ’s reasoning must only be “clear enough to allow for appropriate judicial review” and “brevity is not reversible error”
• stating that the ALJ must consider the Polaski factors when evaluating a claimant’s credibility as to subjective complaints

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).