Chismarich v. Berryhill, No. 17-1453 (8th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed the Commissioner's denial of disability benefits and dismissal of plaintiff's complaint under 42 U.S.C. 405(g). The court held that the record overwhelmingly supported the determination that plaintiff was not disabled, and the court found no legal error in the ALJ's analysis. In this case, plaintiff was a stay-at-home father married to a physician; he cared for and transported his four young children, performed housekeeping tasks, managed the sale of the family's house, and negotiated with the builders of a new house; and the record demonstrated that not only did he participate in these varied activities, but that he was able to navigate the obvious stresses inherent in these activities when compliant with his prescribed medications. The court held that the ALJ's statements in the step-two and three analyses was not inconsistent with the ALJ's step-four Residual Functional Capacity determination.
Court Description: Per Curiam - Before Smith, Chief Judge, and Melloy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Social Security. The record overwhelmingly supports the agency determination that claimant is not disabled; ALJ's determination that claimant retained the Residual Functional Capacity to to perform jobs existing in significant numbers was not inconsistent with the determinations made at Steps 2 and 3 of the five-step sequential analysis that claimant had moderate impairments in certain domains, such as social functioning, persistence and daily living as these difficulties are not inconsistent with the ability to understand, remember and carry out simple instructions while performing non-detailed task.
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