Legal Opinion
Punzio v. Astrue
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 21, 2011No. 09-3064PublishedCited by 392 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Patricia Punzio has suffered from mental illness for most of her adult life, but an administrative law judge rejected her application for disability benefits on the ground that her treating psychiatrist’s opinion about her mental limitations conflicts with the other medical evidence. To the contrary, however, the treating psychiatrist’s opinion is well supported not only by her own observations of Punzio but also by the record as a whole. And because a vocational expert confirmed that the mental limitations identified by the psychiatrist would preclude Punzio from…
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