Legal Opinion
Allman v. Colvin
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 23, 2016No. 15-7026PublishedCited by 509 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.
Michael Allman applied for Social Security disability benefits, claiming he could not work due to spina bifida, a shunt in his brain, chronic back pain, headaches, depression, and anxiety. An administrative law judge (ALJ) concluded that Mr. Allman’s residual functional capacity (RFC) permitted him to perform a number of jobs that exist in significant numbers in the national economy, defeating his disability claim. At step two of the applicable five-step sequential evaluation, 1 the ALJ determined that Mr. Allman’s headaches were not a “severe impairment” within the…
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