Brandy Forsyth v. Commissioner of Social Security

Brandy Forsyth appeals the magistrate judge’s order affirming the Social Security Administration’s denial of her applications for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income. 1 On appeal, Forsyth argues that the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) improperly afforded greater weight to the opinion of a nonex-amining doctor than to her treating physicians, and erroneously found her not disabled despite the opinion of an examining doctor that she would be unable to work up to 30 percent of the time when her multiple sclerosis (“MS”) was relapsing.

We review a Social Security case…