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· 12/27/1983

Virginia FIORELLO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret M. HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

Citations

  • 725 F.2d 174
  • 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 14142

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that an ALJ is not obligated to “reconcile explicitly every conflicting shred” of evidence
  • reversing and remanding where ALJ credited all medical evidence in favor of non-disability determination but rejected, without reason, all medical evidence in claimant’s favor
  • “Although we do not require that, in rejecting a claim of disability, an ALJ must reconcile explicitly every conflicting shred of medical testimony, we cannot accept an unreasoned rejection of all the medical evidence in a claimant's favor.”

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Judges: Van Graafeiland, Friendly, Van Graafei-Land Meskill

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