Legal Opinion
Loveless v. Colvin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 13, 2016No. 15-2235PublishedCited by 363 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Kevin Loveless applied for Disability Insurance Benefits claiming that he could not work because of a shoulder impairment, diabetes, and pancreatitis. An Administrative Law Judge concluded, however, that Loveless could perform light work with restrictions. The Appeals Council and the district court upheld that determination, but Loveless insists that the ALJ erred by minimizing the opinion of his personal physician and disbelieving his own testimony about the limiting effects of his impairments. We reject these contentions.
I. Background
Loveless, who is now 56, has a long…
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