Legal Opinion
Purdy v. Berryhill
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 3, 2018No. 16-2242PPublishedCited by 397 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOUTER, Associate Justice.
This is an appeal from the district court's affirmance of an administrative law judge's finding that the appellant, Rita Purdy, was not disabled and was thus not entitled to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Although the record of her attempts to demonstrate disability is a complicated interplay of medical testimony, the facts to be considered in this appeal may be stated with relative economy, so far as they bear on the two issues raised before us: Whether the administrative law judge (ALJ) lapsed into error in according only slight weight to the…
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