United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of a motion to alter or amend a judgment that plaintiff did not qualify for Disability Insurance or Supplemental Security Income benefits is reversed and remanded where: 1) there was not an "accurate and logical bridge" between the ALJ's recitation of the mental medical evidence and a decision to account for plaintiff's mental impairments by limiting him to unskilled work; and 2) the stated reasons of the ALJ for finding that plaintiff lacked credibility were contradicted by the objective evidence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/24/2008
• Decided 08/22/2008
• Published 08/22/2008

Judges

• TINDER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frederick J. Daley, Jr., Heather F. Aloe (argued), Daley, Debofsky & Bryant, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edward J. Kristof (argued), Alfred Sanchez, Social Security Administration Office of the General Counsel, Region V, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.