Where a claimant challenged the denial of disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income, there was no objective medical evidence that his flare ups of gout were frequent or lengthy, and the claimant testified that the condition was controlled by ...

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Plaintiff appealed from the district court’s order affirming the denial of Social Security disability insurance benefits to plaintiff. Where plaintiff received a full and fair administrative hearing, there was no basis for the district court to overrule Social Security Administration’s ...

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Where a claimant of supplemental security income challenged the denial of her application for benefits, the administrative law judge properly determined that the claimant’s limitations from her intellectual disorder and obesity did not rise to the level of a disability, ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Intellectual Disorder Social Security

Where a claimant challenged the denial of disability insurance benefits, the administrative law judge properly discounted the claimant’s subjective complaints, and substantial evidence supported the determination that the claimant was not entitled to benefits, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment ...

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Plaintiff appealed from the adverse grant of summary judgment in her ERISA claim arising from the denial of benefits. Where the plan reserved discretionary power to construe terms or make eligibility determinations, the district court properly granted summary judgment to ...

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Plaintiff appealed from the denial of his application for supplemental security income. Although plaintiff was found to suffer from borderline intellectual functioning, learning delays, schizoaffective disorder, and mood, personality, and anxiety disorders, an ALJ concluded that plaintiff could perform his ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Residual Functional Capacity Supplemental Security Income

Where a claimant of Social Security disability benefits challenged an order affirming the denial of benefits and supplemental security income, the administrative law judge properly gave little weight to the residual functional capacity opinion of the treating doctor because the ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Residual Functional Capacity Social Security

Where a claimant challenged the denial of disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income, substantial evidence supported a finding by the administrative law judge that the claimant’s speech apraxia was not disabling, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment is affirmed. ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Social Security Disability Speech Apraxia

Plaintiff appealed from the district court’s denial of her application for SSDI and SSI benefits. Where there was sufficient evidence to support an Administrative Law Judge’s determination that none of plaintiff’s impairments met any of the listings to qualify her ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Evidence of Impairments SSDI and SSI

Where a claimant challenged the denial of her application for Social Security disability-insurance benefits, the judgment is affirmed because the conclusions of the administrative law judge that the claimant could perform her past relevant work as a receptionist and that ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Social Security Disability Substantial Gainful Activity

Where a claimant challenged the denial of his application for disability-insurance benefits, the judgment is affirmed because substantial evidence supported the determination that his impairments did not meet or medically equal a listed impairment, and the residual functional capacity determination ...

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