Johnson v. Commissioner of Social Security

OPINION

ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Pete Johnson (“claimant”) seeks review of the denial of his application for Disability Insurance Benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act. The sole issue on appeal is a relatively narrow one: Did the administrative law judge (“ALJ”) err when he failed to give controlling weight to claimant’s treating physician and instead credited the assessment of a non-treating state agency physician who concluded that claimant had the capacity to perform a limited range of work? Our review of the administrative record reveals that, contrary to the…