United States Tenth Circuit

Rejection of disability claim was not based on substantial evidence. The ALJ erred in finding claimant had a residual function capacity for a wide range of medium work by rejecting the opinions of his treating doctors and in not treating as credible his assertions of disabling pain.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/04/2004
• Published 05/04/2004

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, KELLY and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael D. Clay of Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney, Muskogee, OK;  Tina M. Waddell, Regional Chief Counsel, Region VI, Michael McGaughran, Deputy Regional Chief Counsel, and Earnie A. Joe, Assistant Regional Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Social Security Administration, Dallas, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.