Wiese v. Astrue

How courts have described this case

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• holding it is permissible if the basis of the ALJ’s finding may be “apparent from the opinion’s entirety”
• explaining that a district court may not decide facts anew, reweigh the evidence or substitute its judgment for that of the ALJ
• reasoning that “it is not” the province of the court to re-weigh “evidence presented to the ALJ or to try [an] issue . . . de novo.”
• reasoning that “it is not” the province of the court to reweigh “evidence presented to the ALJ or to try [an] issue in . . . de novo.”
• affirming that an ALJ’s findings may be “apparent from the opinion’s entirety,” and it is not necessary to focus on one specific portion of the opinion in isolation
• noting if it is possible to draw two inconsistent positions from the evidence and one of those positions represents the Commissioner’s finding, [the court] must affirm the ALJ’s decision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).