Baker Ex Rel. Baker v. Barnhart

DECISION AND ORDER

ADELMAN, District Judge.

Despite the deferential standard of review applicable to social security appeals, district courts reverse or remand more than fifty percent of the time, a rate that has been increasing. Paul Verkuil & Jeffery Lubbers, Alternative Approaches to Judicial Review of Social Security Disability Cases: A Report to the Social Security Board, at 31 (Mar. 1, 2002), available at http://www.ssab.gov (last visited Dec. 23, 2005). One reason for this trend is that Administrative Law Judges (“ALJs”) too often fail to explain the reasoning underlying their decisions.…