William E. Butts v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security

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• concluding that remand for step five determination was appropriate where the record was incomplete because the ALJ failed to call a vocational expert
• holding that the district court’s exercise of the remand authority granted by 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), sentence four, is discretionary
• holding that a plaintiff has the burden of establishing a diminished RFC
• stating that when the ALJ fails to develop the record sufficiently, a remand for further findings “is particularly appropriate” (citation omitted)
• explaining that courts should consider “hardship to a claimant of further delay” when engaged in a “discretionary selection of alternative remedies”
• instructing that some evaluation of relative hardship to a claimant of further delay should be considered

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