Legal Opinion
Higginbotham v. Barnhart
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 31, 2005No. 04-10197PublishedCited by 198 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
Today we decide a question of only narrow interest but of significance to some Social Security appeals: Whether, in reviewing the denial of supplemental security income (“SSI”) benefits, the courts should consider evidence that the claimant did not present to the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”), but submitted for the first time to the Appeals Council, which accepted and considered the evidence but denied review of the ALJ decision. The Commissioner of Social Security argues that it should not be considered because it is not part of the Commissioner’s “final…
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