United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of an application for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income benefits is vacated and remanded where: 1) the ALJ failed to build a logical bridge between the evidence and his conclusion that applicant's testimony was not credible; 2) the ALJ's analysis of the applicant's limitations did not demonstrate that he had appropriate reasons for rejecting them; 3) the ALJ erred in concluding that applicant had a generalized skill of "judgment" that was somehow transferable to new jobs in a different field; and 4) the ALJ mistakenly concluded that applicant could perform 15,400 jobs when the VE had identified only 1,549 jobs.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/18/2008
• Decided 02/11/2009
• Published 02/11/2009

Judges

• Before JOEL M. FLAUM, Circuit Judge, DIANE S. SYKES, Circuit Judge, JOHN DANIEL TINDER, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nastassia G. Johnson (argued), Law Offices of Barry A. Schultz, P.C., Evanston, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anne K. Kleinman (argued), Social Security Administration, Office of the General Counsel, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.