Walter Johnson v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security

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• holding that the issue exhaustion doctrine does not apply to issues that were not raised during the SSA's inquisitorial administrative proceedings
• upholding ALJ’s rejection of physician’s check-box form where it was contradicted by evidence in the record
• “When a claimant argues that there are fatal gaps or contradictions in the administrative law judge’s opinion . . . we give the opinion a commonsensical reading rather than nitpicking at it.” (citations omitted)
• retroactivity concerns applying a new law “to events prior to its promulgation”

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