United States Sixth Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's Disability Insurance Benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act is reversed where the Administrative Law Judge failed to articulate reasons for discounting the opinion of plaintiff's treating physician and violated the agency's own procedural regulation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/02/2004
• Published 08/02/2004

Judges

• Before: GILMAN and ROGERS, Circuit Judges;  FORESTER, Chief District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lewis M. Seward (argued and briefed), Seward, Tally & Piggott, Bay City, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ayrie Moore, James B. Geren (argued and briefed), Social Security Administration Office of the General Counsel, Region V., Chicago, IL, Charles R. Gross, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan, Grand Rapids, MI, for Defendants-Appellees.