Legal Opinion
Meuser v. Colvin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 3, 2016No. 16-1052PublishedCited by 405 opinions
1Per curiam
George Meuser suffers from schizophrenia and applied for Disability Insurance Benefits principally because of that impairment. But an administrative law judge concluded at Step 2 of the 5-step disability *907analysis that Meuser’s schizophrenia was not a severe impairment and denied benefits on that basis. A magistrate judge presiding by consent, see 28 U.S.C. § 686(c), upheld that ALJ’s decision, but Meuser argues that it rests on a profound misunderstanding of the medical evidence and thus is not supported by substantial evidence. We agree.
I. BACKGROÜND
Meuser, who is 46 years old, was diagnosed…
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