Legal Opinion
Fisk v. Barnhart
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 9, 2007No. 06-4677UnpublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
The Commissioner of Social Security seeks review of a district court’s judgment vacating and remanding an ALJ’s denial of benefits to Michael Fisk. On the one hand, we agree with the Commissioner that, even if the district court incorrectly assigned error to the ALJ’s ruling that some of Fisk’s impairments were not “severe,” any error was harmless. On the other hand, we agree with Fisk that the district court correctly identified a material failure by the ALJ to follow the procedural requirements of 20 C.F.R. § 404.1527(d)(2) before disregarding the opinion of Fisk’s…
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