Liggins v. Colvin

ORDER

Tillman Liggins sought disability benefits based on chronic back pain, morbid obesity, and bilateral hand pain with numbness and tingling, but an administrative law judge found that despite these conditions Liggins retained the residual functional capacity (RFC) to perform sedentary work. Liggins now challenges the ALJ’s findings; he focuses particularly on the RFC the ALJ used, the ALJ’s negative credibility assessment, and the weight the ALJ gave to the opinion of Liggins’s treating physician. Because substantial evidence does not support the ALJ’s decision, we vacate and remand.

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