Legal Opinion
Scott v. Astrue
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 1, 2011No. 10-2487PublishedCited by 691 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Shirley Scott applied for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income, claiming that she is disabled by bipolar disorder and numerous physical impairments. The Social Security Administration (“SSA”) denied her claim, and a magistrate judge, presiding by consent, upheld the decision. Scott contends on appeal that the Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) wrongly discounted the opinion of her treating psychiatrist and discredited her own testimony, and that these mistakes caused the ALJ to overstate her residual functional capacity (“RFC”). We vacate the…
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