David W. TOM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

The appellant has asked us to reverse the district court — which affirmed the denial of the appellant’s application for social security benefits — on grounds that my brethren correctly find to be without merit. That ought to be the end of the case. But instead my brethren reverse, and send the case back to the social security administration because of two errors in the administrative law judge’s opinion. The vocational expert listed jobs that involve light rather than, as the administrative law judge thought, sedentary work; and the administrative law judge failed to take into account the…