Legal Opinion
Brownawell v. Commissioner of Social Security
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 9, 2008No. 07-4405PublishedCited by 257 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
VAN ANTWERPEN, Circuit Judge.
Kathy Brownawell appeals the District Court’s September 28, 2008 order affirming the Commissioner of Social Security’s denial of her claim for Supplemental Security Income (“SSI”) under Title XVI of the Social Security Act. Because the decision to deny benefits was improperly based on a number of erroneous facts and discredits the opinions of two examining doctors based on the opinion of a non-examining psychologist, and because substantial evidence on a fully developed record indicates that Brownawell is disabled, this Court reverses the…
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