United States Sixth Circuit

In a case arising from a denial of plaintiff's application for disability insurance benefits from the Social Security Administration, a ruling in favor of the Commissioner of Social Security is vacated and remanded where an ALJ erred in entirely failing to address a primary treating psychologist's presumptively supportable opinion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/09/2007
• Published 03/09/2007

Judges

• Before GILMAN and SUTTON, Circuit Judges;  TARNOW, District Judge. 

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Leonard J. Stayton, Inez, Kentucky, for Appellant.   William Hogan, Social Security Administration, Office of General Counsel, Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Leonard J. Stayton, Inez, Kentucky, for Appellant.  Haila Kleinman, Dennis R. Williams, Mary Ann Sloan, Roy Satterwhite, Natalie Jemison, Douglas Wilson, Social Security Administration, Office of General Counsel, Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellee.