United States Tenth Circuit

Evidence that disability applicant was not treated by her doctors during the nine months preceding the disability hearing, did not report arm numbness to her doctors, showed no obvious discomfort at the hearing, and was not taking prescription pain medication supports an administrative law judge's adverse credibility finding.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/26/2000
• Published 10/26/2000

Judges

• BALDOCK, Circuit Judge., Before BALDOCK, McKAY, and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey B. Kent, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen C. Lewis, United States Attorney;  Tina M. Waddell, Chief Counsel, Region VI;  Mark J. Kingsolver, Deputy Chief Counsel;  Mary F. Lin, Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Social Security Administration, Dallas, Texas, for Defendant-Appellee.