Williamson v. Barnhart

How courts have described this case

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• holding that mere presence of condition, without proof that condition limits basic work activities, is insufficient for step two showing
• ruling that it would “not reach the remaining issues raised by [the claimant] because they may be affected by the ALJ’s treatment of this case on remand”
• observing that a step-two claimant has the burden of “show[ing] that h[er] impairments would have more than a minimal effect on h[er] ability to do basic work activities” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• providing that the plaintiff had the burden of proof at step two
• noting that a finding of non-severe is “only to be made where medical evidence establishes only a slight abnormality” that would “have no more than a minimal effect on an individual’s ability to work” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “In determining whether a severe impairment exists, the Commissioner considers the ‘effect’ of the impairment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).